Ballet Quote by Toni Bentley

“She'd seen it with Isabelle, the way things could become so permeated with memories that story was more important than function.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“Isabelle had always thought of her mind as a garden, a magical place to play as a child, when the grown-ups were having conversations…

— Erica Bauermeister

“Her father, indulgent in his concern, had opened his library to her, and at last she could read to her heart's content. In all,…

— Helene Wecker

“Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and…

— Francesca Block

“She'd filled twelve notebooks and still she hadn't stopped. Indeed, the more she wrote, the louder the stories seemed to grow, swirling in her…

— Kate Morton

“...she knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding…

— Yiyun Li

“Once, she asked, 'Can you remind me of this tomorrow?' He smiled and replied, 'I'd rather be your everlasting reminder than just a leftover…

— Anonymous

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get…

— Isabel Allende

“when what she needed was something concrete, some small final memory to slip its hand in hers and accompany her—sightless now, stumbling—through this sudden…

— Donna Tartt

“She feared that she’d missed something, because there were so many parallels with her own story, and she could not help but see in…

— Chris Bohjalian

“In the beginning, she had hauted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my…

— John Green