Art Quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“She had passed the spring of youth, but her wit prolonged the triumph of its reign, and they mutually assisted the fame of each…

— Ann Radcliffe

“But she feared time itself... the dwindling of life; how year by year her share was sliced; how, little the margin that remained was…

— Virginia Woolf

“She longed for porch friendship, for the sticky, hot sensation of familiar female legs thrown over hers in companionship. She pined for the girliness…

— Rebecca Wells

“All her life, she had learned that passion, like fire, was a dangerous thing. It so easily went out of control. It scaled walls…

— Celeste Ng

“She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee. And evil was the hour when she saw, and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“By the time she had grown sharper,..., she found in her mind a collection of images and echoes to which meanings were attachable- images…

— Henry James

“But that any other eyes should see the residue of her thirty-three years, the deposit of each day’s living mixed with something more secret…

— Virginia Woolf

“Part of her wanted simply to sit and stare out of the window, at the lawn, flaky with sodden leaves, and the branches with…

— A.S. Byatt

“She heard hearts bounce, tears brewing, and breath going backward, but nobody said a word. By the sorrow and loss and sweetness in their…

— Peter S. Beagle

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any…

— Jane Austen

“Two, she thought, was the most ephemeral age, the age of incipient consciousness, when personality was first chinking into place. Felicity was her last…

— Jane Smiley

“She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being…

— Jane Austen Persuasion