Susan Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring it of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I NEVER SAW Susan without feeling a small but discernible thrill. The thrill was mixed with a feeling of gratitude that she was with…

— Robert B. Parker

“An act of kindness blossoms our lives with gladness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Dearest Lily." Penelope took her hand and pressed it between her own. "Since I was a little girl, I've always thought of you as…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Little Sally is beheading daisies on the drive... couldn't be more eloquent if she could speak...”

— Lauren Groff

“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of growing and…

— Shirley Jackson

“With Mrs. Morel it was one of those still moments when the small frets vanish, and the beauty of things stands out, and she…

— D.H. Lawrence

“she was simply grateful for this wise, loving mentor who could take one look into her eyes, see all the turmoil, sift through the…

— Alex Kava

“There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the…

— Sōseki Natsume

“Only tiny kindnesses, but the ones that counted, the million little mercies we take for granted, the mundane gestures that keep us, tentatively, together.”

— Meera Syal

“She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.”

— Ida Hattemer-Higgins

“But down from the end of the path it looked so charming that she wished she could paint it in watercolours—the great trees, the…

— Elizabeth von Arnim