Family Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

“Blue was filled with frustration that her life was so clearly demarcated. Things that were not enough , but that she could have. Things…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“It seemed they viewed her differently now. She had status. She mattered. All at once they were interested in what she had to say.…

— Anne Tyler

“for all the heat they take in the papers, the boys in blue usually had the right intentions.”

— L.H. Thomson

“...And there it went, the burden of her lifetime, taken.”

— Ann Patchett

“It was becoming difficult to separate her own decisions from those made by others, for her, on behalf of themselves.”

— Chris Pavone

“Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family. Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.”

— Jandy Nelson

“She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“the inconvenience she represented.”

— Alex Lukeman

“most of all, she’d learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn’t be counted on.”

— Kristin Hannah

“She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“She hated official letters. They made her feel nervous. The people who wrote them sounded like they had filing cabinets where their hearts should…

— Katherine Rundell

“Her friends, comrades…they were like family, and to see the change that had come over them all was just another painful reminder of the…

— Victoria Lynn