Garland Quote by Margaret Mahy

“She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.”

— Stephen King

“Maybe she doesn't want to understand things she doesn't think she can change anyway. Maybe sometimes you just have a couple of rotten choices.…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“...she had gone too far into the unhappiness of the world to start all over again.”

— Deborah Levy

“It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it…

— Stephen Chbosky

“She could not understand why this world, which was so full of beauty and wonder, had to also be so full of horrors.”

— Jeanne DuPrau

“Lack of control, he once told her, was worse than anything in the world.”

— Cristina Alger

“I see the life draining out of her and something else taking its place, but I don't know what. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe…

— Jan Strnad

“You should just expect the worst. The world just isn’t what it used to be.”

— Annie Walls

“I am having a crisis, she thought. I suddenly feel a new fragile sense of myself in this world and it's unbearable.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if…

— Jim Harrison

“Honestly, I don’t understand how someone so great came out of something so terrible. It’s like she hasn’t had any chance to be happy,…

— Laurel Snyder

“She righted herself, her balance returning. Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles,…

— Leigh Bardugo