Fantasy-young-adult Quote by Anonymous

“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“there was a pessimism in his soul, a darkness in his outlook, that always left her somehow more aware of hard edges than she…

— Kate Morton

“Something, or someone, uncurled deep within her soul. A woman she barely recognized, who knew how to take what she wanted and asked for…

— Emma Hamm

“Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.”

— George Eliot

“It isn’t comfortable to discover her place and her necessity. And yet what she has to offer is nothing less than the entire deep…

— Thomas Moore

“The scene before her flattened, lost one of its dimensions, and the noise dribbled irrelevantly down its face. Something was coming. This moment, this…

— Denis Johnson

“She felt as if she was standing at the edge of an abyss, but she was in no way counting on God to rescue…

— Lene Kaaberbøl

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“She had never guessed at the doubts secretly quarrying their way into the heart of the rock. It was like learning that God had…

— Frances Hardinge

“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

“She had believed that she alone could touch his heart, and that likewise his was the only gaze that would ever reach hers. She…

— Noriko Ogiwara

“She couldn't have told you whether it was because she was afraid, or because such a voice in the darkness seemed of necessity a…

— Henry James