Character Quote by Kasie West

“Don't get me wrong. The good part of Mom's life was shrinking down to nothing, and the hard parts were about all that remained.…

— Meg Federico

“She was closed up like a fist. It her very own memory, not theirs, her very own real and terrible and lonely and dark…

— Gayl Jones

“This was the place where someone had led her, only she could not remember who and could not remember when. Just that this was…

— Abby Slovin

“Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She…

— Haruki Murakami

“The little room was full of ordinary things that had already become precious, that I couldn't help but want to have again, to feel…

— Wendy McClure

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“Perhaps the old lady had kidnapped Michela, had found her in the park and taken her away, because she had a violent desire for…

— Paolo Giordano

“It's like she had a soul that was much too big for her; it filled her to the brim till there was no more…

— Nick Lake

“As she ran, a memory uncurled in her mind and spread out before her and it felt like she was running into the memory.”

— J.C. Morrows

“It struck her how sad it was that all of them had grown up on top of one another like small animals in a…

— Lauren Oliver

“She needed this, she needed him . It all felt so right, so perfectly, and astonishingly right! Something inside her was healing and becoming…

— Erica Stevens