Life Quote by Eleanor Catton

“But she was beautiful, with hair and eyes so dark and long. He imagined she was a reservation eclipse. Full. He needed special glasses…

— Sherman Alexie

“She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare…

— Kate Chopin

“but she remained more or less and ideal character, about whose form he began to weave curious and fantastic day-dreams.”

— Thomas Hardy

“She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.”

— Thomas Hardy

“There was something different about her, though I could not say exactly what it was. It was as if she were more certain. If…

— Tracy Chevalier

“He'd thought this was the start of something. But clearly she'd changed her mind, and he felt stunned by how quickly the whole thing…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“From this close, she could see the color of his eyes perfectly. They were a misty, shifting blue marbled with gray, like smoke rising…

— Maureen Johnson

“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

— Ayn Rand

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

— Kate Chopin

“while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while the shape…

— Rachel Cusk

“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses.”

— Eowyn Ivey