Ella Derick

“It is a terrible thing to find the love of your life, Christina,” she says. “You know too well what you’re missing when it’s gone.”
― Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

“Something in his manner makes me want to confide things to him I've never told anyone. Even painful things, shameful things. I didn't know how badly I wanted to share them.”
― Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.” Maybe so, I think. Maybe my memories of sweeter times are vivid enough, and present enough, to overcome the disappointments that followed. And to sustain me through the rest.”
― Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World

“That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.”
― Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World