Quote by Christina Stead

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

“He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world. He didn't…

— Lauren Willig

“It was, she believed, a simple and unassailable fact of life that if a woman went to epic lengths to throw herself on the…

— Nicholas Evans

“Then she had understood how it was possible for a man to do nothing wrong, and still to be wrong, day after day.”

— Laura Brodie

“...She was, in fact, often wrong--and knew it. Life became difficult when those who were often wrong did not know it.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“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

“people found off-putting. You could not beat her at chess or Trivial Pursuit or even Monopoly. She knew all the questions on Jeopardy. She…

— Karin Slaughter

“But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know.…

— Anne Perry

“She was his beacon to what others called decency, not because she told him how to act but because she made him want to…

— Thea Harrison

“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please,…

— Richard Yates

“She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that others may not understand—and that…

— Patricia Strefling

“She at least was broad-minded, and moreover she understood the workings of the human heart. It was creditable for a man to ruin himself…

— Ford Madox Ford