Young woman Quote by Edward Gorey

“She saw how the skim of filth, which was despair, which was hopelessness, fell like soot on the lives of the poor.”

— Alice McDermott

“Love, Tabitha Crum, is to be earned, not given away to just anyone like a festering case of fleas. She”

— Jessica Lawson

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

“Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her…

— E.M. Forster

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin

“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the despairing darkness…

— Casey Fisher

“she was the kind of woman who only gave herself away in small doses, leaving men wandering like little children at all that she…

— Christopher Poindexter

“her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold,…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung into the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“could unsheathe from her arsenal a mockingly grave way of talking about things she found either portentous or frivolous. She could shrink your aspirations…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Nay, it ain't got fleas, and 'tis a girl .”

— Cecilia Dart-Thornton