Young lady Quote by George Gissing

“They lived under supervision, a life without men. Dora knew no men. You could scarcely see how she might meet one, let alone come…

— Shirley Hazzard

“The unhoped was all but granted her. She could labour on in the valley of the shadow of books, for a ray of dazzling…

— George Gissing

“She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of…

— L.M. Montgomery

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“He only wished that she were still here. It was good to be here with Jem and Cecily and Charlotte, to be surrounded by…

— Cassandra Clare

“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”

— Roald Dahl

“Yet within a miles, Margaret knew of house after house, where she would for her own sake, and her mother for her Aunt Shaw's,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“She scarcely knew what to think except that she was in the presence of a woman who was as close to legendary as any…

— Josie Litton

“And when she died, she was lonely, and scared, and she missed her books. And she pretty much just got up and walked back…

— Tim Byrd

“She just wanted to go home. And not home to the farmhouse where all the ghosts lived, but home to Tai, and to an…

— Jennifer Scott

“She lifted the book to her nose. A book had a smell more soothing than any of Mrs. Hawkins's herbs. There was nothing like…

— Cindy Thomson

“He's a terrible man, miss," Nanny Maude said. "Consorts with devils, he does, and drinks blood, and..." "He was at Culloden! " Lydia blurted…

— Anne Stuart