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“Aren’t you going to look at it, Verity?” asked Miss Deane. Slowly, I unwrapped it. I saw a small, slim girl with serious eyes and a little pointed face, wearing her second-best dress and posed stiffly beside an artificial rosebush. Standing behind her, rising out of a sort of mist, was a fair-haired young man in a white shirt. There was no doubt as to who it was. It was my half-brother Alexander, and he was smiling.”
― Susan Green, Verity Sparks, Lost and Found

“Where there’s life, there’s hope,” I said. Hope. How I’d needed it, in those dark days when it seemed that Papa would never be found, dead or alive. I thought of Alexander again. “Thank you,” I whispered.”
― Susan Green, Verity Sparks, Lost and Found

“Andrew watched her out of the room as if he could hardly bear to see her go. “What a fool I’ve been,” he said, for the fiftieth time. “They say we’re all fools in love,” said Miss Deane to me later. “What do you mean?” “Andrew Ross and Mrs O’Day – I wouldn’t be surprised if they make a match of it one day.”
― Susan Green, Verity Sparks, Lost and Found

“The little case opened to make a stand, so when I went up to my bedroom I set the miniature on my dressing table, next to my framed photograph of Papa. Seeing them side by side, I smiled. They belonged together, Papa and Isabella. Isabella. Suddenly it seemed wrong to call her by her first name. She was my mother. “Mama.” As I said it out loud, tears came to my eyes. I’d resisted that word for a long time. It seemed disloyal to Ma and Pa, who’d adopted me when I was just a tiny baby. They had been simple working people, kind and honest and loving, with no money for fripperies like portraits or photographs.”
― Susan Green, Verity Sparks and the Scarlet Hand

“He didn’t know why I was laughing. “What is so funny, chérie?” “What’s lost is found, darling Papa,” I said, kissing him ever so gently. “At last, what’s lost is found.”
― Susan Green, Verity Sparks, Lost and Found

“Come on,” said Papa. “Let’s go home.”
― Susan Green, Verity Sparks, Lost and Found

“Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s magnificent Central Park alone gives citizens a breath of fresh air and SVU writers acres of ideal locations. Their imaginations also swim in the Hudson and East rivers. In all five boroughs, neighborhoods can either glitter enticingly or represent urban decay. Everything needed is within reach, often a few subway stops away.”
― Susan Green, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Unofficial Companion

“There was another interruption. Mrs Reilly flung open the double doors and announced in a despairing tone, “If yez don’t come now, the beef’ll be burned to blazes. It’s up to you.” She turned on her heel and stalked off. “In other words,” said SP, “luncheon is served.”
― Susan Green, Verity Sparks and the Scarlet Hand