Chevy Quote by Katie McGarry

“(She) could have read for hours, except that recently she had discovered holes and crevices between the words which she immediately had to fill…

— Gerhard Amanshauser

“She allowed herself to look his way, pretending she was glancing at the clock on the wall above the door. He was meticulously lost…

— Kimberly Derting

“She'd learned now that the only way to write a list was to finish with something you actually wanted to do.”

— Harriet Evans

“She picked up her book and tried to read but it was heavy in her hands. She struggled to hold it, wanting to finish…

— Louise Penny

“She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“I felt there was a lot I needed to teach her. I wanted to give her an early grounding in the basics of arithmetic…

— Jeannette Walls

“I wrote her a letter, because a letter felt like the easiest and also most dramatic way to do this kind of thing, and…

— Matt Bellassai

“She waited in the ward thinking what I had thought in the same circumstances, that this was not a place much designated to help…

— Norah Vincet

“All this is probably for nothing,' she [her mother] said once we'd hatched the plan. 'Most likely I'll flunk out anyway.' To prepare, she…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She…

— Bernice L. McFadden

“But if the words struck her only lightly when she was nine, they stayed with her, gaining in density, to insinuate themselves whenever her…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“All she wanted was five minutes to herself, to hear herself think without someone demanding explanations or that she fix something she couldn’t fix.”

— Starla Huchton