Aging Quote by Penelope Lively

“This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no!”

— Shannon Hale

“Charlotte has a high tolerance for risk, she’s a slave to the sea and she takes pictures of time.”

— G.J. Walker-Smith

“Charlotte never lied to others, so she made the classic mistake of the habitually honest—she assumed that other people did not lie to her,…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

“I'm an orphan now, thought Charlotte. No matter how old you are, when your parents are gone, you are alone - an orphan.”

— Libby Schmais

“She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writers.…

— E.B. White

“Charlotte is a prism for my life. Without her, my existence looks pale and bleak and somewhere near the middle of the suck-meter. But…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Sometimes Charlotte wished she could trade lives with someone else. When she was in the grocery store and saw someone laughing, she imagined walking…

— Erin Entrada Kelly

“She hadn't seen him since yesterday, and Charlotte did not understand the sensation that gripped her at the sight of him. As if she…

— Michelle Diener

“I guess I haven't made it clear how I feel about Charlotte. Well, she puts my heart in a microwave and watches as it…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“She grieved for her lost daughter and she grieved for herself.  When Cicely uncovered the deception of her adoption, she uncovered a greater deception—that…

— Ruth Francisco

“Charlotte's face paled. She was already scared as a prisoner of war. Now she knew where she had been taken. She was in the…

— Kenneth S. Murray

“It begins to dawn on her that she is lackadaisical about other people. They are tremendously important to her for a time and then…

— Diane Schoemperlen