Quote by Gregory Maguire

“The glass served up her likeness without sympathy, showing every line and shadow.”

— Sarah Hilary

“Through them, I was able to make a turn in myself, and somehow that view from the window seen alone and at night has…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Love, she told me, didn't have anything to do with walking through a piece of glass.”

— Shauna Seliy

“She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“She thought she need not worry about her youth; it wasted itself spontaneously, like sunshine elsewhere or firelight in an empty room.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

“I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tried with all her might to get…

— Mo Daviau

“in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story. She still did not—and yet she regarded herself in…

— Kij Johnson

“So that she began to see herself more clearly, as a thin film of dust was wiped from a sheet of glass.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?”

— Annie Ernaux

“I'd tried to explain to her that she needed to stop seeing the world through pretty-girl glasses. It skewed her perspectives.”

— Sariah Wilson

“I kept thinking of her eyes, the depths of them, the way she looked right into me, and I wasn't afraid of what she'd…

— Robin Constantine

“Just the sight of him brought back everything that was good and homelike to her mind. It was like coming back to her own…

— L.J. Smith