Quote by Nick Hornby

“There had been whispers that her family was suffering financially--suffering, as if lack of money was a wound. Which it was, the worst kind.”

— Anton DiSclafani

“It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn’t matter how loud she screamed or…

— Daniel Abraham

“Everything was temporary; she understood that now. All of this was temporary. It would all be snatched away. It was all on loan. Even…

— Karen Kondazian

“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed,…

— Michelle de Kretser

“The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity…

— Charles Williams

“It had come as a relief when she had been forced to go into the hospital in Emporia, where she could be given drugs…

— Nancy Pickard

“For all the things that had happened to her, all the people she had met, the miles of ocean she had covered, she could…

— Peter Carey

“There was money enough... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as walking bare-footed…

— Edith Wharton

“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into…

— Elizabeth Strout

“I've amazed myself with how well I've learned to live around her absence. This void is my constant companion, no matter what I do.…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“Oh, the loneliness, the loneliness. It lived inside her now like an illness, like a flu that could be ignored and then would suddenly…

— Anna Quindlen

“All her life, Neverfell had suffered the dull, embarrassed ache of the knowledge that she was always the maddest person in the room. Funnily…

— Frances Hardinge