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All Around the Town QUOTES

All Around the Town QUOTES

1 " From the vanity in her bathroom she took her seldom-used cosmetic case. The image of her mother in her shell-pink dressing gown, so naturally pretty, so endearingly maternal, telling her to put on eyeshadow brought at last the scalding tears she had forced back for Laurie's sake. "

― Mary Higgins Clark , All Around the Town

2 " Her mother had once explained to her, “We’d been married fifteen years and I’d given up hope of ever having a baby, but when I was thirty-seven I knew you were on the way. Like a gift. Then eight years later when Laurie was born—oh, Sarah, it was a miracle!”

When she was in the second grade, Sarah remembered asking Sister Catherine which was better, a gift or a miracle?

“A miracle is the greatest gift a human being can receive,” Sister Catherine had said. That afternoon, when Sarah suddenly began to cry in class, she fibbed and said it was because her stomach was sick. "

― Mary Higgins Clark , All Around the Town

3 " Do you make it a habit to go through Sarah's diaries?"

The look Laurie gave him was pure pity. "You're the one who wants to know what everyone is thinking. What makes you better? "

― Mary Higgins Clark , All Around the Town