Quote by Frank Herbert

“She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told…

— Marissa Meyer

“What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was worth living.”

— Alice Hoffman

“She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.”

— Harry Mathews

“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

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“She had no reason to cry. She was alive, and it was a beautiful day.”

— Hope Ramsay

“Couldn’t she see that they were all dying, that everything was futile, that the only thing to do was to live and drink and…

— Lev Grossman

“a bunch of depressed, overeducated shut-ins, but they seemed human to her.”

— Lev Grossman

“Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if…

— Jim Harrison

“Once she was face to face with the people who led the way their silence was unnerving. No one seemed to speak. They looked…

— Victoria Hislop

“People made her tired. The way they were easy with one another, the way they seemed so natural, only made her sad.”

— Ann Patchett

“She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn't torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them. She kept…

— Ann Brashares