Life Quote by Anna Kavan

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A world open…

— Nicole Mones

“She could hardly believe what she was hearing. How could the man who had taken her from her home—the person she had trusted with…

— A. Grace Martin

“She liked being alone, and she was alone a lot. When she met people, she often found them deeply strange, their behavior incomprehensible, their…

— Bernhard Schlink

“At times such as these, evenings in the forest, loneliness seized her like a black dog. She kept telling herself it was pure weakness,…

— Jean Zimmerman

“[A]fter all it was true that a girl does not go alone in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone freely alone in the…

— H G Wells

“She was young, a Stranger to the World, and consequently to the Dangers of it; and having no Body in Town, at that Time,…

— Eliza Haywood

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“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

“As she wove in and out of all the people - rushing, talking, eating, laughing; some in clumps, some alone - she realized that…

— Kevin Henkes

“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