Beauty Quote by Edith Wharton

“She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful…

— Feodor Dostoevsky

“she thought of the mix of kids in her class and in Melissa’s and she knew that the future could be bright. No one…

— Dixie Dawn Miller Goode

“She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in a bare…

— Edith Wharton

“As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old conclusion to…

— Virginia Woolf

“She knew she had become the strange sort of lady that she remembered noticing as a child, the sort of lady who was always…

— Jane Smiley

“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and…

— Kathy Cooperman

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the…

— Nicholas Sparks

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…

— Jane Urquhart