Biography Quote by Frederick Weisel

“She was autodidactic, and when she mentioned that, most of the college kids didn’t even know what it meant.”

— J.T. Ellison

“Just because it's complicated, just because you think you can't ever know everything about another person, it doesn't mean you can't try.”

— Maria Semple

“But experience had taught her that such arguments failed. You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know.…

— Anne Perry

“I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“Wasn’t that the terrible lesson of her life? Who can ever really know anyone?”

— M. Rickert

“Sara grinned at that. “A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they’re entitled to…

— Lisa Kleypas

“I felt there was a lot I needed to teach her. I wanted to give her an early grounding in the basics of arithmetic…

— Jeannette Walls

“It was so easy, she thought with some disdain, to find out about people. It was all out there, everything about them. You just…

— Celeste Ng

“If there was one thing she'd learned, it was that people didn't change. They liked what they liked, even if they didn't understand why.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“Life was a hard teacher, but a thorough one.”

— Karen Hawkins

“She was different and the same, and I had known her insofar as you can really know anyone, which is to say not much.”

— Bennett Madison

“I gave people who didn’t know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything…

— Will Schwalbe