Habits Quote by Colette

“She’d discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from…

— V.S. Kemanis

“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.”

— Nora Roberts

“Or else she stayed in and nursed a mood with which she was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind.…

— Kate Chopin

“The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity…

— Charles Williams

“Would she ever learn to be content in this life she chose? She felt so strange inside. Sad and lonely and missing the life…

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

“Lingering here, bored and comfortable, was a form of self-punishment tinged with pleasure, or the expectation of it; if she went away something bad…

— Ian McEwan

“She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.”

— Thomas Hardy

“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and…

— Kathy Cooperman

“Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.”

— Martin Edwards

“What’s strange about the whole thing is that although it’s riddled with nonsense, altogether it’s true – Julie’s told our story, mine and hers,…

— Elizabeth Wein

“She wondered if she was alone in having nothing between the dullness of her own days and the sheer brilliance of this imagined life.”

— Colm Tóibín

“Aside from her unpleasant sleep, and one game of solitaire with Lana,”

— Alyssia Kirkhart