Quote by David Foster Wallace

“She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in…

— Vladimir Nabokov

As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if…

— Haruki Murakami

“For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“what massive turbulence of emotion she hid beneath a surface of total calm and placidity.”

— William Boyd

“Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more complication, sleaze,…

— Cintra Wilson

“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to…

— Nella Larsen

“An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.”

— Zane Grey

“She was sick of all the affect, the self-absorption, the constant preoccupation with themselves and their children. No one she knew had saved the…

— Alexa Steele

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.”

— Leigh Hershkovich

“As her life choked away beneath the tightness , in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction.”

— Patricia Gibney