Friendship Quote by Lauren Oliver

“The other dolls sat upon the shelf and looked straight before them, for it would never do to let grown-up men know that dolls…

— Johnny Gruelle

“Like all children, you would have loved and admired her. You would have named your favorite doll after her…And then you would have poked…

— Sally Hobart Alexander

“She had lived thirty-four years keeping everything inside, and now she was letting everything go, like butterflies released from a box. They didn't burst…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories.”

— Shogo Oketani

“They could read it on each other, their faces wrinkled pages. Words hiding in the folds of their clothes. She was made of letters…

— Brian Francis Slattery

“The woman in whose body I had grown, in whose house I’d been raised was, in some vital ways, a stranger to me. I’d…

— Kate Morton

“As she worked, Anna glanced occasionally at the Flossie Flirt doll wedged at the end of a shelf. She had wanted one so violently…

— Jennifer Egan

“And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she…

— Natsuo Kirino

“Being around Nikolai was always like this, watching him shift and change, revealing secrets as he went. He reminded me of the wooden nesting…

— Leigh Bardugo

“The box room. No bigger than a coffin. It would be like being buried. Maybe she wouldn't keep her Barbies after all. She would…

— Sue Limb

“He pictured her living alone in that tranquil house with its fine old furnishings, tending her flowers and fruit trees.”

— Julia Glass

“They weren’t like dolls, because dolls had no feelings. Kids had feelings, just not any remotely related to yours.”

— Sam Lipsyte