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“I could tell that she felt happy.  Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner…

— E. L. Konigsburg

“She realized that adventures, once they were over, were things that had to stay inside one--that no one else could quite understand.”

— Eva Ibbotson

“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted…

— Nella Larsen

“Would she ever learn to be content in this life she chose? She felt so strange inside. Sad and lonely and missing the life…

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“But mostly she was tired of being cut off from the part of herself that existed in the ambient. She would never be whole,…

— J.D. Lakey

“They played, laughed, and teased until the moment she slid him inside of her. When his world stopped. Everything he'd ever known. Everything he'd…

— Lauren Stewart

“She'd always perceived the world to be against her. Happiness was never to be trusted. And yet I thought vaguely, neither was sorrow. Didn't…

— Regina O'Melveny

“She distrusted people who were happy all the time. It simply wasn’t necessary.”

— Tim Ellis

“It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy.”

— John McCain

“She’d noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn’t exist is the only escape from the…

— Lisa Wingate

“She was sometimes happy, in the sense of being somehow complete, and ready for what another day might bring. And knows she is no…

— William Gibson