Bread and butter Quote by D.H. Lawrence

“I decided that if I was worth anything as a person, I ought to be able to let her be with what it was…

— Roland Merullo

“She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.”

— Willa Cather

“But, as her mother had often told her, life wasn't meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived.”

— Susan Mallery

“Living, it seemed to her, was the acquiring of bad habits. Dying, the process of rescinding them.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile…

— Carolyn Brown

“Maybe the mess of life was the very thing she was supposed to enjoy instead of always fighting it, trying to impose order.”

— Wendy Francis

“There was money enough... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as walking bare-footed…

— Edith Wharton

“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might…

— Graham Greene

“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went.…

— Robert Harris

“I don't know. Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that…

— Betty Smith

“She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made…

— Ann Napolitano