Dinner party Quote by Anna Quindlen

“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went.…

— Robert Harris

“The effect of Dorothea's being on those around her was incalculable diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric…

— George Eliot Middlemarch

“She had covered herself in frost, so every part of her grew cold and would not feel, because of that single part that longed…

— Shehanne Moore

“If only the winter could have opened up to show her it was vulnerable, too.”

— Emily Ruskovich

“Besides, if she was able to get away, Dorothea would obtain the one thing that Avelina had dreamed of, written stories about, and imagined…

— Melanie Dickerson

“There was a peculiar fascination for Dorothea in this division of property intended for herself, and always regarded by her as excessive. She was…

— George Eliot

“Miss Winter restored to me the virginal qualities of the novice reader, and then with her stories she ravished me.”

— Diane Setterfield

“She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an…

— D H Lawrence

“She reminded him of (...) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice…

— Joseph Heller

“The memories are few and like dreams of her life resuming a muted sound of snow    falling into itself.”

— Carolyn Forché

“Well, she had had the most wonderful summer; she had got that anyhow tucked away up the sleeve of her memory, and could bring…

— Elizabeth von Arnim