Firsts Quote by Elizabeth George Speare

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

— Jodi Picoult

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her,…

— Robin McKinley

“She never discussed her past in detail, but a few tidbits she’d dropped here and there over the last few months they’d all been…

— Shelly Laurenston

And she thought she could of made it.

— Jasmine

She believed she could so she did.

— Anonymous

“She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right…

— Han Kang

In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the…

— Libba Bray

“But when, from the midst of the printed page, there suddenly sprang out at her these words: 'Here I stand; I can no other,'…

— Anna Kavan

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

— Anonymous

“She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged…

— Nicole Krauss

“[...] these questions gave way, in the course of time, to a different preoccupation, namely, a slow and growing awareness of familiarity with the…

— Jonathan Coe

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

— F. Scott Fitzgerald