Isabelle Quote by Jennifer Donnelly

“She'd seen it with Isabelle, the way things could become so permeated with memories that story was more important than function.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“She shed no tears. She just sat there, as if someone had cut out her heart.”

— Cornelia Funke

“The next day, Mary walked through the rubble of their destroyed house. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized…

— Marisa Silver

“She'd never have to cut herself again. She carries a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it…

— Scott Westerfeld

“Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal.…

— E.lockhart

“I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she…

— Francesca Lia Block

“She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult…

— Lauren Oliver

“She spoke without feeling, unburdened by love or dreams or the pain of a broken heart. It was a new day in Hearts, and…

— Marissa Meyer

“It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she…

— Carson McCullers

“She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black heart. But…

— Loretta Chase

“Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a…

— Ami McKay

“She is always unwilling to understand, to listen, She laughs to hide her fear of herself. She has always walked beneath the arches of…

— Paul Éluard