Quote by Frances Hardinge

“She was coming to learn that the true measure of a person's worth was how they treated a person when circumstances brought them to…

— Susan Anne Mason

“She was the kind of woman who made a sport of finding fault with other people; her favorite target being me. I wasn’t good…

— Clara James

“And yet she was wholly herself: a rarity.”

— Donna Tartt

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

“Admittedly, all the time I’d had to devote to the game had shaved a full point off my grade average, and it had probably…

— Ernest Cline

“Exactly what I said: she’s still a child in many ways, so she’s discovering all the fine and noble causes for the first time,…

— Donna Leon

“Mother was,' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and…

— Karen Abbott

“She was a cutter. Only saying she was a cutter might be an understatement. She was a destroyer of beautiful things.”

— Jaden Wilkes

“But if the words struck her only lightly when she was nine, they stayed with her, gaining in density, to insinuate themselves whenever her…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“She judged people smartly and quickly, and often found herself in a huff.”

— Alice Hoffman

“She was a rapidly rising anchor. She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand…

— Douglas Adams