Habits Quote by Annie Dillard

“Instead of killing herself, I wondered, could a person just shrink and crumple until she became nothing, until her traits and quirks wasted along…

— Elaine Beale

“If she had known all that right from the beginning, then why hadn’t she stopped? Why give into something which you knew instinctively was…

— Sharon Kendrick

“She had effaced herself, when he first knew her; she had made herself small, pretending there was less of her than there really was.…

— Henry James

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

— Judy Blume

“A part of her wanted to stop pushing herself, stop feeling compelled to rise to the occasion of being her best self. She wanted…

— Katherine Morgan Schafler

“On the contrary, she was aware only of a sort of timelessness, as though it was all part of a plan, a predestined design,…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“She wondered if she would have tumbled into love with him during the past week if her heart had been whole, if her soul…

— Mary Balogh

“If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day by day…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?”

— Colum McCann

“In ten minutes she’d have propulsion again—if she could just hold out that long.”

— Hugh Howey

“And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her? I felt that she would have regarded me as mad, for…

— Marcel Proust

“God, they’d barely begun and she didn’t know how much more she could stand before the lust-drunk cells in her body rocketed over the…

— Sydney Somers