Dolly Quotes

“Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I don't think anything," she said, "but I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be....”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Life is never just in your own hands ...”
― Jasmine Sparks, Dolly

“Simple survival is never as ordinary as it seems!”
― Jasmine Sparks, Dolly

“I tried to imagine her as the mother of a child, but simply could not. I felt sorry for any offspring she might produce.”
― Susan Hill, Dolly

“Places are often filled with their own pasts and exude a sense of them, an atmosphere of great good or great evil, which can be picked up by anyone sensitive to their surroundings.”
― Susan Hill, Dolly

“On Sunday when Dolly awakened, she had olive skin and black-brown hair that fell in waves to her hips. On Tuesday when Dolly awakened, she was a redhead, and fair. But on Thursday her eyes were blue, her hair as black as crow’s wing, and her hands were red with blood.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“The doll didn’t have feelings to hurt, but she looked so much like a person it was hard to remember to treat her as something else.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“I have always believed that places with a long history, especially those in which terrible events have taken place, retain something of those times, some trace in the air.”
― Susan Hill, Dolly