Airs Quote by Emma Willard

“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she found nothing…

— Louisa May Alcott

“but still, from family attachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a girl, with…

— Jane Austen

“She was a grown up now, and she discovered that being a grown up was not quite what she had suspected it would be…

— Stephen King

“– Her Design was once more to engage him, to hear him sigh, to see him languish, to feel the strenuous Pressures of his…

— Eliza Haywood

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

— Henry James

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent…

— Henry James

“And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils…

— Anne Rice

“They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“There were moments when she longed blindly for anything different, anything strange, remote and untried; but the utmost reach of her imagination did not…

— Edith Wharton

Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had…

— Edith Wharton

“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…

— Jane Urquhart