Disappointed Quote by Cynthia Rylant

“May was the best person I ever knew.... She understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had…

— Cynthia Rylant

“May she be her best possible self,” because it seemed, in that moment, to be the truest of all wishes—not a betrayal of self…

— Laini Taylor

“Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this end, she…

— Margaret Mitchell

Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped…

— Anonymous

“Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone. All…

— Thornton Wilder

“She had passed the spring of youth, but her wit prolonged the triumph of its reign, and they mutually assisted the fame of each…

— Ann Radcliffe

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

— Anonymous

“I also observe that she does not fret much nor look in the glass, and has not even mentioned a very pretty ring which…

— Louisa May Alcott

“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

“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to…

— Anaïs Nin

...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.

— Susan Minot

“Maybe she’d always wished to be beautiful and didn’t quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn’t say she was and more…

— Mona Simpson