Independent Quote by Ann Brashares

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

— Colm Toibin

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

— Ayn Rand

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as…

— Jane Austen

...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't…

— Kim Edwards

“Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time…

— Philip Pullman

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for…

— Charles Bukowski

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to…

— William Faulkner

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She…

— Christine Feehan

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

— Anne Rice

“And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds of passions…

— Anne Perry