Failure Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

“Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she’d grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“Was there anything in her life that made her feel more in control than being wanted?”

— Josie Leigh

“That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.”

— Amanda Tero

“She would not take more risks than she could help, and it was admiration, not love, that she wanted.”

— Edith Wharton

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“But the burden of appearing to be fine, so as to keep others from worrying about her, was almost worse than simply allowing herself…

— Gwen Cooper

“Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed into their opposites. Having overcome them, she felt…

— Michael Ende

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“There had been nothing to fear. The world turned out to be a gentler, more forgiving and richer plain than she'd ever imagined.”

— Vanessa Greene

“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than…

— Jane Austen

“I understood that she was more candor & despair than woman. She had refused to be flesh & triumphed. She was freer than I.”

— Antonio Di Benedetto

“On her worst days, she feared she was actually less. And that truth had defined the rest of her life.”

— Susan Mallery