Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“she was disquietingly fluid—fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust, created already…

— James Baldwin

“Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring…

— Sebastian Faulks

“The tide of her exhilaration drained from her, leaving her exhausted and heartsick. She would have bound the entire city, made them all into…

— Helene Wecker

“When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a…

— Osamu Dazai

“Inside, a deep-rooted force raged, buried in her psyche from eons before, percolating with a primordial awakening that had been long forgotten, until now.”

— R. W. Patterson

“acquired the knack of spreading all she knew very thin, so that it might cover a vast surface.”

— Anthony Trollope

“... hurt burrowed deeper than anything she'd ever felt, deep enough to change from the thing she felt to the thing she was.”

— Anthony Marra

“It frightened her to witness these mass ebbs and flows, to work at the cutting face of all that suggestion and manipulation.”

— Catherine O'Flynn

“The feelings he aroused in her were like a complete realignment of her being, right down to the molecular level.”

— Lisa Marie Rice

“She was being released from the sorrows of the soil that had bred her.”

— Nadine Bjursten

“She had the scattered feeling she always got when events conspired to mess things up, and nothing exhausted and frustrated her more than a…

— J. Robert Lennon