Conscience Quote by Dorothy Allison

“I learned many interesting things from Delia: for example, that she and Gulya had both married alcoholics, but Delia's alcoholic had taken all her…

— Elif Batuman

I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell…

— Jodi Picoult

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved…

— Jodi Picoult

She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to wrap himself…

— Julia Quinn

“Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous expansion of being. Light-headed, she felt a swooping sensation and…

— Louise Erdrich

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine,…

— Kate Chopin

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind…

— Kate Chopin

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

— Colm Toibin

“Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Dessah’s mind kept taking her to places she didn’t want to go. Hearing about her aunt’s heart attack, all of a sudden, her body…

— Holliday Vann

“Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all…

— Louise Erdrich

…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

— Anonymous