Quote by Donald Barthelme

“Everything about her seems to be saying, Listen, if you don’t look attentively, if you don’t go beyond my simplicity to detect the simmering…

— Rawi Hage

“There was something enthralling about her that I could not exactly identify.”

— Felipe Nas

“It was a terror of the strange, of what was mysterious and unknown in her new world. And to think that all of it…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“It’s something I never knew about her. How bizarre that you can know your entire life, see their most hidden pains and hopes, and…

— Kelsey Sutton

“It begins to dawn on her that she is lackadaisical about other people. They are tremendously important to her for a time and then…

— Diane Schoemperlen

“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 had achieved the elusiveness that gives hidden significance to the least significant remarks.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She lacks mystery; and the charm people have who withdraw, and don't care to coin their views. One figures her always in flight; so…

— Virginia Woolf

“But there was something strange about her that made me think she was "somebody." I don't mean her poise, the cool manner in which…

— Anne Rice

“To me she represents nothing less than the very secrets of the world.”

— Makoto Shinkai

“But there’s something about her—the cities on her shoes, the flash of bravery, the unnecessary sadness—that makes me want to know what the word…

— David Levithan