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“She was a person with her own hopes and feelings and history and nightmares. In her own way she was as lost as he…

— Lev Grossman

“She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“...she could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions.”

— Sidney Sheldon

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“...misery had her dwelling in my heart...”

— Mary Shelley

“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly…

— Baroness Orczy

“But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her like life…

— Kate Chopin

“She realized that her undiluted love had also given him the power to hurt her but she decided that spirit of the soul can…

— Madhu Vajpayee

“Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.”

— Leigh Hershkovich

“...She was becoming what she was destined to become...: her own person, her own independent and particular self.”

— Amanda Coplin

“Then she thought of how life could still be happy, and how tormentingly she loved and hated him, and how terribly her heart was…

— Leo Tolstoy