Love Walked in (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Clare Hobbes Grace: An eleven year-old girl abandoned by her mother.
• Cornelia Brown: 30-something coffee shop manager who is thrown in the middle of a small family drama. Creates a lasting bond with Clare.
• Martin Grace: Cornelia's dream boat boyfriend
• Teo Sandoval: Long time family friend and Brother-in-law to Cornelia.
• Viviana Hobbes: Clare's Mother
• Linny: Cornelia's colorful and spunky best friend
• Max: Viviana & Clare's cleaning lady. Clare's sometimes confidant & friend.
• Hayes: Loud, handsome cowboy who hangs out at the coffee shop.
• Ollie: Cornelia's sister, who is married to Teo
• Cam: Cornelia's brother.
• Toby: Cornelia's brother.
• Ellie Brown: Cornelia's mother.
• B: Corneila's father who is a doctor.
• Mrs. Goldberg: She was like a surrogate mother to Cornelia when she was a child.
• Josie Arthur: Clare's friend.
• Mrs. Arthur: Josie's mother who takes Clare to school.
• Marie: Josie's friend.
• Mrs. Castleberry: Add a description of this character.
• Phaedra
• Bob Ewell
• Edmund Battle
• Annika
• Allegra
• Ms. Packer
• Walt Whitman
• Gordon Goldberg
• Molly
• Ruth
• Tracy Lord
• John Doe
• Woods Rawlings
• Bette
• Nancy
• Seth
• Mr. Fringer
• Lloyd
• Dexter
• Cornelia hisses
• William Powell
• Luka
• Ingrid Sandoval
• Sissy Sheehan
• Eleanor
• Jose
• Mrs. Jordan
• Auden

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• ““…my hand tucked into the crook of his arm in a way that cried out for me to be in pearl-buttoned, wrist-length gloves; and then, in the foyer of my apartment building, we filled five minutes with kisses so delicate, so intimate and gentle that, afterward, I walked up the stairs to my apartment, carrying the moment carefully as though it were a glass globe full of butterflies.””

  Cornelia

• ““But the atmosphere Teo and Cornelia carried around with them was playful, affectionate and what else? Accepting. When Clare entered this atmosphere, she felt free, as though what she thought and said were just fine.””

  Clare

• ““Childhood happiness means car rides, sleepy ones, in the backseat with hazy, golden light pouring in or hazy silver light, depending on the hour, leaning against Olly or Toby or Cam, music on the radio, the sound of our parents talking, and always our parents, there, up front, capable, keeping watch, protecting us with a boundless benevolence, carrying all of us down the right road.””

• “It didn't make sense to feel more alone after this conversation, she thought. It wasn't like she'd lost something, because there was never anything to lose. But she felt more alone anyway.”

  Clare

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• “Oh, my gosh,” and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It’s not a question of choice.

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• There are people whose deaths make you ache with sadness. And then there are people whose deaths prevent the sun from rising, deaths that turn the walls black in every room you walk through, deaths that send storm clouds and a wail swirling through your head so that you can’t hear music and you can’t recognize your furniture or your own face in the mirror.

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• it isn’t always easy to figure out what you love. You’d think it would be, but it isn’t. Also, if you stay in it for any length of time, like anyplace else, a café becomes a world.

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• At first she was happy because she had decided to be, and then she relaxed into her happiness and just felt it.

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• And somehow to Clare, this seemed no less magical than flowers that stayed alive for years, that one woman could so love another woman that she kept doing nice things for her even after she was gone. Like love was a habit you couldn’t break.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Philidelphia, Pennsylvania
• London
• Philadelphia
• New York
• Paris
• Spain

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Belong to Me.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Marisa de los Santos (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3604.E1228 L68 2006
• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › 20th Century
• Books › Romance › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( D )

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