Ran Quote by Dorothy Parker

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

— Alan Bennett

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and…

— Alice Hoffman

It seemed to her as though everything that was good and true had been blasted out of the world. All those things had been…

— Anna Godbersen

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

— Don DeLillo

But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood…

— Dan Simmons

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank.…

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Brian Andreas

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

— Zora Neale Hurston

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

— Markus Zusak

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

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

— Anonymous