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“How quiet everything was this Sunday afternoon, how still. No horse and wagon clopped down the street, no cart; no one stood on the corner talking. It was as if they were the only ones in the world.”

Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 1-10, p. 44

“He remembered everything. Maybe that was why he was such a great writer. What he remembered he'd put on paper, but it came out different, more interesting, more exciting than she'd ever been able to imagine.”

Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 90

“He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.”

Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Prologue, p. 3

“Leave it to Annie. She knew everything.”

Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 21-29, p. 162

“Everything stopped: forks half raised, a bowl being passed. It seemed that the man was bathed in red, great swaths of it across his shirt and hands. And then Thomas realized: he was covered in blood.”

Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 1-10, p. 43