Adjusting Quote by George Eliot

She knew few words and believed in none.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She considered herself too smart to believe in things she had no evidence for, and that behaved in ways that violated every principle she’d…

— Lev Grossman

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.

— Anna Godbersen

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they…

— Jeffery Deaver

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

— Jean Rhys

“Her mind was less difficult to develop.”

— Jane Austen

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

— Mohsin Hamid

“The blood kept welling up and getting over things so that she couldn’t see what she was doing, which annoyed her; but she knew…

— William T. Vollmann

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being…

— Paulo Coelho

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

— Sinclair Lewis

“As far as I could see, she had no opinion at all about anything that was not set directly in front of her (and…

— Haruki Murakami

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change.

— Philip Larkin