Linda R. Madden

“packed tighter than two coats of paint,”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Yaltha is summed up in these two lines from the novel: “Her mind was an immense feral country that spilled its borders. She trespassed everywhere”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“Art teaches us to mourn for strangers.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Every time he blinks, a memory ripples across the undersides of his eyelids:”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land