Across the universe Quote by Alice Hoffman

“She was in herself, like a woman near term, and did not think of the man, going on ahead, or the path, climbing upwards…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the despairing darkness…

— Casey Fisher

“But of course, it had all been her – by her and about her, and now she was back in the world, not one…

— Ian McEwan

“She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker…

— Emily Brontë

“I missed the mother I’d never known and mourned for her suffering now. Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an…

— Stephenie Meyer

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made…

— Émile Zola

“It wasn’t dying that she feared, it was dying bad: leaving her grandboy alone in the world, unprotected, his wounds unhealed. Death, which walked…

— Taylor Brown

“She stared at her father's lifeless body, and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her…

— Cixin Liu

“Her parents were killed in their private helicopter. An elite death but at the moment of dying we are all penniless. She never spoke…

— Salman Rushdie

“I had hoped to make her strong and healthy, and now she may be too weak herself after this slow death, like my father's…

— Sylvia Plath

“She felt the night air on her, pretending she was somewhere else, in some other time. She often did this before she did something…

— Adrienne Maree Brown

“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The…

— Virginia Woolf