Quote by Kate Morton

“Before she'd worn her first black dress, fear had splintered into a hundred pieces inside her, and each one turned into a painful ulcer.…

— Cindy Woodsmall

She was the black rose. She was the lightning storm. She was one who couldn't grow. She was the one with thorns. She would…

— Needa Muy

“What she most wanted was to blend in with her background by changing color and shape, to remain inconspicuous and not easily remembered. This…

— Haruki Murakami

“But she feared time itself... the dwindling of life; how year by year her share was sliced; how, little the margin that remained was…

— Virginia Woolf

“Those who sought her never found her, yet she was known to come to the aid of those in greatest need. And, then again,…

— Terry Pratchett

“Eleven years she had lived in the dark house and its gloomy garden. He was jealous of the very light and air getting to…

— Charles Dickens

“Fear made her seem ill; it distorted her body lines, made her appear as if someone had broken her, and then, with malice, patched…

— Philip K. Dick

“She feared that she’d missed something, because there were so many parallels with her own story, and she could not help but see in…

— Chris Bohjalian

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of…

— Kate Morton

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“She was frightened because she was realizing – too late, too late – that what's done can't be undone, and what's remembered must somehow…

— Stephen King

“She says that she held on to the memory as if it were a touchstone, something that could anchor her. She knows, has always…

— Madeleine Thien