“I never want to forget that if Lewis Carroll had asked me whether or not he should bother writing about a little girl named Alice who fell asleep and dreamed that she had a lot of adventures down a rabbit hole, it would not have sounded awfully tempting to any editor.”
― Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
― Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
“That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this.”
― The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
― The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
“She wanted to kiss the hurt away, but knew from her own life that it would always be there. The sadness would remain, but it would exist next to new, buoyant memories. He had come through his own fiery trial as she had hers, not unscathed, but forged into something altogether different and stronger.”
― Wicked Wind
― Wicked Wind
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