Family Quote by Sarah Addison Allen

“He wasn't used to people saying no, and Eby felt sorry for him, the way she'd always felt sorry for those who had everything…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Eby wanted to say so much to her. She wanted to say that waking up is the most important part of grieving, that so…

— Sarah Addison Allen

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

— Stephen King

“. I guess she couldn’t think of anything to say. But the truth was, I was doing OK at that point. Life was unfolding…

— Lee Child

“The situation wasn’t ideal. But it was what she had to work with, so she would work with it. She was a tough one,”

— Lev Grossman

“But, as her mother had often told her, life wasn't meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived.”

— Susan Mallery

“And by the way, the fact that she's not speaking to anyone in her family is a pretty good indicator that she is the…

— Chelsea Handler

“most of all, she’d learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn’t be counted on.”

— Kristin Hannah

“She could decide how she was going to be. She had a choice. Life could be an endless series of joyless chores, or she…

— Grady Hendrix

“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please,…

— Richard Yates

“She had the scattered feeling she always got when events conspired to mess things up, and nothing exhausted and frustrated her more than a…

— J. Robert Lennon

“But it’s also—we had a strange family growing up. Things weren’t always easy. For us. For others. Mistakes were made. Bad things happened. But…

— T.J. Klune