Behinds Quote by Sarah Addison Allen

Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends…

— Sarah Addison Allen

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized…

— Abraham Verghese

I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.

— Leslie Jordan

She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny…

— Rainbow Rowell

That's exactly how I felt. So getting to suddenly know this young [princess] Margaret, who had this extraordinary life - it was sad and…

— Vanessa Kirby

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of…

— Victor Hugo

“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty child, and…

— Victor Hugo

Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she…

— Lewis Carroll

“Wealthy old woman + devious imagination - restraint = Aunt Agatha”

— Maya Rodale

So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the…

— Libba Bray

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what…

— Beverly Cleary

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry…

— Marilyn French