Christmas Quote by Melinda Rathjen

“I talked to a mother of nine last night, and I thought, “Nine is nine years too young to be a mother.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Nancy was as proud as she was critical of her younger daughter. She spoke glowingly about the precocious little girl who said her first…

— Joan Frances Casey

“I knew." "What?" "I knew what you were then, Sophie. Your dad told me before the betrothal. And you told me about your grandmother,…

— Rachel Hawkins

“Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she…

— Nancy E. Turner

“Her grandmother had said once that she felt it was only her body that was old. Inside she had always been the same young…

— Jostein Gaarder

“Nine years ago I was alive. Nine years ago Jessica Anne Porter was fifteen years old.”

— Joan Frances Turner

“My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded.”

— Helen Grant

“Joe, my guardian and a man of few words, once said about Lizzie, “That girl could talk the ears off a cornfield.”

— Sharon Creech

“Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.”

— Anthony Marra

“She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark,…

— Laura Kalpakian

“I kissed the sky until every character in my head came alive. ©2018 Suzanne Steele”

— Suzanne Steele

“Can we name the baby after my mom? One way or another?” “Anything for your mom, Alex. Anything.”

— C.C. Brown