"No normal man would want to raise another man's child unless he was an angel or a fool."

"I'd rather die on an adventure then live standing still."

"Beyond overjoy, as we shall see, there's no over-overjoy; there's only madness and mania."

"They have their own lives now. Where once Miriam was their sun and he their moon, Dan and Lucy are now distant stars in their own galaxies."

On the first anniversary of the death of his wife, Arthur Pepper found a charm bracelet that he had never seen...a brilliant debut.

'And if you were forced to name your one favorite author?
I'd have to say. "I'm sorry, but books don't work like that, and neither does music, Amen," and take the consequences.'
~David Mitchell

"I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won‘t."
~Elena Ferrante

"No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws."

Reading Anna Quindlen's Miller's Valley is like sitting in front of Grandma with a cup of warm tea, listening to her telling a tale - comfortable, peaceful, yet you feel so close to the characters. The story becomes part of you. The story is life itself.