Difficult time Quote by E.D. Walker

“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”

— Charles Williams

“It was one thing to talk about being by yourself, doing important things, but quite another when the opportunity arose. The characters in the…

— Natalie Babbitt

“What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations.”

— Emily C.A. Snyder

“The thing was, when you served another, when you lived a role determined by someone else…you could not go back to that constriction once…

— J.R. Ward

“What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.”

— Edith Wharton

“The idea of committing her body to the hands of a man she trusted was freeing, liberating in a way she couldn't quite explain,…

— Mari Carr

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“a woman whom the course of years had turned sour and to whom the vows meant poverty of spirit, chastity of humour, and obedience…

— Donna Leon

“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.”

— B. Barmanbek

“Poor Catherine's dignity was not aggressive; it never sat in state; but if you pushed far enough you could find it. Her father had…

— Henry James

“Her head dropped into her hands. Dammit! She’d spent months preparing for the challenges of a war against an immortal enemy wielding vastly superior…

— G.S. Jennsen