Parenting Quote by Elif Shafak

“Peri felt the energy in her father's hand ebb; his fingers grew light and bloodless, the hand of a cadaver waiting to be dissected.…

— Elif Shafak

“Time had stopped, or so it seemed. Every day was like the one before it, with little of note or consequence. Each night Persephone…

— Sasha Summers

“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was…

— Kate Chopin

“. . . the romantic teenager buried deep inside her was weeping at the perversion of her love story. There was no hero in…

— Anna Zaires

“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind. These…

— Hugh Howey

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff

“Her long body stiffened against him. Her cool fingers tightened in his shaggy fur, and her bare, clinging heels dug deep into his heaving…

— Jack Williamson

“She realized that her undiluted love had also given him the power to hurt her but she decided that spirit of the soul can…

— Madhu Vajpayee

“She stood at the edge of everything she once believed, and it was quiet—too quiet—like the moment a soul decides whether to break or…

— Anonymous