Emma

“Dust balls lined the steps. A half-eaten sandwich sat atop the landing where someone had felt too sad to finish it.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Mig watched her father walk away, the red table cloth billowing out behind him. He left his daughter. And, as you already know, he did not look back. Not even once.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

“It must have been a curse because it meant my heart didn't belong to myself. It belonged to someone other than myself. It belonged to him.”
― Zoe Pilger, Eat My Heart Out

“...a poor, deceived, and half-delirious girl, who, exclaiming that she was the most worthless thing alive or dead, attempted to cast herself into the fire amid all that wrecked and broken trumpery of the world.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Earth's Holocaust