Accord Quote by Charles Frazier

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized…

— Abraham Verghese

“Humans were temporal. They aged and, eventually, died. And while she could have dwelled on her tendency to morbidly fixate on this quality, she…

— Marilyn Brant

“They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone you loved him and…

— George Orwell

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was…

— Anne Perry

“She’d ended her life as she’d lived it: a life without compassion, kindness, or consideration to others. Her parting had now suffered the same…

— Peppi Hilton

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made…

— Émile Zola

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff

“she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as…

— Phillip Pullman

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place…

— Lurlene McDaniel

It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who…

— Chris Adrian

“Losing a parent was difficult; when her father had died, she had thought she’d never get over it. The pain had been like a…

— Victoria Jenkins