Book-club-fiction Quote by Olivia Barry

“There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.”

— Amy Hatvany

“In quantum physics, particles change when they’re observed. But this isn’t quantum: my book doesn’t alter by being seen or unseen. It is exceptional…

— S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour

“Maybe he was too drunk to hear me when I told him to stop. Maybe I didn’t say it loudly enough. Maybe I didn’t…

— Amy Hatvany

“Thoughtful, innovative, this mother was; she always had the solution. So on the stickiest of nights, when the varnished wood chairs sweated and moths…

— Sarah Beth Martin

“And now she must continue the day as if the strange dream hadn’t picked up her life and shaken it upside down like a…

— Kim Hornsby

“Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her heart gave…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“It was strange letting her body do such things, while her mind hovered outside somewhere, just on the outside of her skull. Strange for…

— Sarah Beth Martin

“Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“The air was cool and soft. The desert looked empty from our great height, enough to believe the geographers and travel writers who tell…

— C. Lynn Murphy

“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live…

— Fredrik Backman

“A sudden change took place. From lying back in her seat wreathed in her own thoughts, which often gave her an otherworldly quality, Grace…

— Cynthia Sally Haggard

“The girl I’d been just an hour ago was gone; she’d been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now.”

— Amy Hatvany