Quote by Alice Kaplan

“But even though I felt her presence, I also felt the habitual fruitlessness of thinking about her. Her images, partly memories of her, partly…

— Jane Smiley

“did: In the first Place, by making no Person in the World a Confident in it; and in the next, in concealing from Beauplaisir…

— Eliza Haywood

“But I’ve been reading A Very Easy Death, about Simone de Beauvoir’s mother dying of cancer – it’s just brilliant. It really helped me.’…

— Helen Garner

“She understood the specific kind of appreciation that comes to a person witnessing a thing of beauty alone, how the spectacle seems to sit…

— Elizabeth Berg

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and…

— Lisa Genova

“invariably to me, I know, and to any person who saw her, I should think--refuted more tangible proofs of convalescence, and stamped her as…

— Emily Brontë

“I see myself..in those pages as she goes back and forth, enjoying simply enjoying the beauties of the moments then chastising herself for having…

— Michael Cunningham

“perhaps real beauty was something unrecognized by the conscious self, a work that was always in progress, a thing of being rather than seeing.”

— Stephen King

“I saw myself through her eyes, I saw myself through Charles's eyes, always; I never looked into a mirror and saw myself through my…

— Melanie Benjamin

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“We never see the people who are dear to us save in the animated system, the perpetual motion of our incessant love for them,…

— Marcel Proust

“She'd seen them them all before, those faces. She knew them all, knew the sound of their voices, sounds mired in human emotions, sounds…

— Steven Erikson