Quote by Kate Atkinson

“The air was so damp that fish could have come in through doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Ursula is something I will never feel again: she is Melancholy, cut into the soul and flesh.”

— Luther Blissett

“It was the kind of summer evening that made Ursula want to be alone. 'Oh,' Izzie said, 'You're at an age when a girl…

— Kate Atkinson

“Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death.”

— Kate Atkinson

“The sound of her breathing reminded me, as it so often did, of how vulnerable she was. And how vulnerable we were because of…

— Dennis Lehane

“Until a few days ago, humans had been little more than legend to him, and now here he was in their world. It was…

— Laini Taylor

“As the two of us—past self, my present self—hovered over her bed, I could see each cruel damage written across her skin, beneath her…

— David Levithan

“Mary tells herself that if only she could have a child she could carry around like an extra lung, the emptiness inside her would…

— Mary Szybist

“I wondered if Kate would harden as my mother had when she was young and her own mother died. Some people exist quite well…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“You have a backbone of steel. You went through months of hell looking after a small child, a dying husband and an entire household,…

— Lisa Kleypas

“But the best stories were about their mother, how her hair was as red as blood, how she had seventy-four freckles on her face,…

— Alice Hoffman

“The stories had become a part of her by then; they stuck to her bones like a good meal, bloomed inside of her like…

— Jennifer E. Smith