Sunshine Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

“She was perched on the windowsill. The brilliant light didn’t seem to bother her. I could just see her thinking to herself that if…

— Calia Read

“It wasn't that she lit up, but that everything else seemed to dim. Things he thought were important or bright turned out not to…

— L.C. Fiore

“It was only sunlight she needed. Pure, delicious sunlight flooding through a room.)”

— Kathleen Collins

“How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly.”

— Gregory Maguire

“Try as she might, she still couldn’t see herself as the fire, as  the daughter of shadows and light who could bridge the divides and pull…

— Kekla Magoon

“But she loved studying and books, the way other people love wine for its power to make you forget. What else did she have?…

— Irène Némirovsky

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to…

— Marguerite Duras

“She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.”

— Veronica Rossi

“But one day, she swore, she'd breathe light and color back into the dimness that had diminished her life.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“she began to understand that life is like a fire: comforting, warming, nurturing, and ready to burn the instant you let your attention drift.”

— K.R. Griffiths