Mary

“Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.”
― James Patterson, Kiss the Girls

“The things that ask the most of us are the things most worth having.”
― William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake

“How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?”
― Richard Russo, Empire Falls