Life Quote by Caroline Mitchell

“she thought of all the years that had led up to this—all those seconds and minutes and hours, spent elsewhere, with others, doing other…

— Laura Barnett

“She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being…

— Jane Austen Persuasion

“She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might…

— Kimberley Freeman

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they’d never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life…

— Jack Ketchum

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made…

— Ann Napolitano

“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she…

— Marcel Proust

“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 considered that there were misfortunes of a much greater magnitude than the loss of a ball experienced every day by some part of…

— Jane Austen

“Most of being young, she had always thought, was playing a game of elimination with an army of different selves until you settled on…

— Ted Thompson

“She felt that if she had to spend another year of interesting, congenial work during the days, and sensitive, cultured, intelligent talk in the…

— Stella Gibbons