Life Quote by J. Courtney Sullivan

“The strange thing on looking back was the purity, the integrity of her feeling for Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a…

— Virginia Woolf

“Standing there, that day, I felt like Sally was being torn from my skin and there was no way I could ever fly free,…

— Belinda Jeffrey

“Help me, Mother,' Peggy said, and tears came to her eyes as they always did when she spoke to her, because she would never…

— Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman

“From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn’t want to lie anymore. One…

— Alice Hoffman

“Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms, or lightning…

— Alice Hoffman

“This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself.…

— Michael Cunningham

“What did she care what became of this world when her loved ones were dead and gone?”

— Allie Burke

“But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had her husband…

— Shirley Hazzard

“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might…

— Graham Greene

“It was a moment before she replied. And in that moment, she realized that what was gone from her was the child in her,…

— Allan Folsom

“She wanted to find a way to love them in death, because she forgot how to love them in life.”

— Sherman Alexie

“She could see that like most people in the world, her mother just wanted to be loved.”

— Rebecca Rasmussen