Quotes by : Christina Baker Kline

I think about all the ways I’ve been perceived by others over the years: as a burden, a dutiful daughter,....

My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards.

The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't....

I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.

Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ...Mary's lovely voice rises....

Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family....

When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved....

I couldn't have imagined how much more there was to lose.

If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.

Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come....