Achievement Quote by Alice Munro

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry…

— Marilyn French

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

— Ann Brashares

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason…

— Charlotte Smith

…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.”

— Doris Lessing

This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired,…

— Kim Edwards

“She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even…

— Candice Proctor

“Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a documentary filmmaker…

— Miriam Toews

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been…

— Douglas Coupland

Her life improved dramatically when she decided to break the rules and find beauty where she was told there was none.

— Anonymous

She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.

— Kim Edwards

“...she knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding…

— Yiyun Li