Quote by Emily Brontë

“Oh I daresay she can't help it - she's one of the women who oughn't be loved too kindly when they are some primitive…

— Dodie Smith

“It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded.”

— Anne Tyler

“The conviction was as solid as the bones beneath her skin: Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.”

— J.R. Ward

“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like…

— Willa Cather

“Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with their beauty…

— Victor Hugo

“pain was a tool. A way of restoring her equilibrium when her armor grew so constricting that it threatened to crush her.”

— Kit Rocha

“If she could give the fiercest storm a corporeal human body, this is what it would look like. Beauty and violence, all rolled up…

— Norah Wilson

“His declaration pierced through the muscle of her heart like a skillfully thrown knife. It was the kind of pain that made her feel…

— Stephanie Perkins

“She stared at him breathlessly, seething. It was like hurling herself against a wall of granite, she thought disjointedly; fighting against him hurt her.…

— Teresa Denys

“Despite her hacked hair, bruised body, and broken spirit, she is absolutely radiant, and I know I can never let anyone hurt her again.”

— Robin Reul

“The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more…

— Robyn Carr

“It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be.”

— Charles Yu