Affluent Ease Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay

“And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds of passions…

— Anne Perry

“I smiled to myself, thinking of America, measuring her against the other girls. She was pretty, if a bit rough on the edges. It…

— Kiera Cass

“It was difficult to define her beyond saying that she seemed to exist only as a hostess, not so much from any exaggerated instinct…

— Edith Wharton

“She had met people who had tried to fit in. She had met people who tried to stand out. But until then she had…

— Millie Florence

“She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people…

— Jonathan Franzen

“...she immediately became the person they believed her to be: a peculiar, impatient girl, attractive enough yet too old and odd for the village…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She was the kind of woman you might overlook in a dark, crowded bar, but the first one you’d notice when the lights came…

— Tracey Garvis-Graves

“They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopped being…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“There were so many beautiful women here. I got the sense that a few of these girls had been on dates before and, perhaps…

— Kiera Cass

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“Her hospitality was something exquisite; she had the gift which so many women lack, of being able to make themselves and their houses belong…

— Sarah Orne Jewett