Firm Quote by David Nicholls

She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even…

— Ann Brashares

“Sitting down in the evenings became a kind of torture, a bleak realization of her talents laid out against the bright shimmering fabric of…

— Cathy Holton

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

— David Nicholls

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

— Sarah Dessen

Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the…

— Ismail Kadaré

Woke the next day and found her note. Love ya, goodbye, that's all she wrote.

— David Gates

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

— Brian Andreas

She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have…

— Shirley Jackson

She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns…

— Sara Paretsky

She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels…

— Michael Cunningham

“So she quit working to make sense of things— we don’t realise it, but it’s hard work we do almost every waking moment, building…

— Helen Oyeyemi

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

— Scott Westerfeld