Ordinary things Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

“But she did not look the future in the face. She wanted to feel nothing, to think nothing; simply to believe that it was…

— Nella Larsen

“She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that others may not understand—and that…

— Patricia Strefling

“And it occurred to her that she was so used to turning over everything in her mind, as if each thought were an intricate…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“But when she saw her eating with her hands, incapable of giving an answer that was not a miracle of simple-mindedness, the only thing…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that…

— Jane Austen

“After years of pining over something she could never have, she would choose to embrace the cold comfort of reality instead. No more daydreams…

— Julie Lessman

“Mary was fond of her own thoughts, and could amuse herself well sitting in twilight with her hands in her lap; for, having early…

— George Eliot

“It wouldn't be the first time she had seen herself obliged to accept with smothered irony other people's interpretation of her conduct. She often…

— Henry James

“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.”

— Chad Harbach

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a…

— Roald Dahl

“She thought she would do something with them someday, although she could not have said what and in fact she never did.”

— Diane Schoemperlen