Quotes from Pamela Redford Russell

Friday, July 7, 1865 It is time then to write the last words that I shall ever write and close the book. I was born to die, as are we all. The end is there, held within the beginning.

I've told so many stories about him. For so many years I've been the girl in the legend, the girl in the fairy tale, the girl who sculpted Lincoln. That fame became my prison. It trapped me in myth. I'm not sure I remember the truth anymore...

This was a glimpse of the sister she loved, the sensitive treasurer, the careful watcher and keeper of all their lives... Wild Flowers (Book One of The Lives Trilogy)

Every writer is a reader first.

Nothing ever happens to just one person.

If you keep someone else's secret long enough, it becomes your own.