Time Quote by Edith Wharton

“The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.”

— E.M. Forster

“Officially she was there to liaise with me on the case, but really she was there for the wide-screen TV, takeaways and the unresolved…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but…

— Thomas Love Peacock

“The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.”

— Anna Godbersen

“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into…

— Elizabeth Strout

“For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her early…

— Kate Chopin

“Fate. She'd never been a big beliver in things like that, had always believed that solid decisions and hard work were what paid off.…

— Bella Andre

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

— Emily C.A. Snyder

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and…

— Alice Dalgliesh

“She believed everything had held, that it would all be just as she had left it, that the years wouldn't dare swindle her of…

— Jaina Sanga

“In London, she'd overheard more than one matron decrying what they considered Esme Byron's inappropriate eccentricities, aghast that she was allowed so much personal…

— Tracy Anne Warren