Books Quote by George Gissing

“She was seeking herself and finding herself in just such sweet, half-darkness which met her moods. But the voices were not soothing that came…

— Kate Chopin

“She went and stood at an open window and looked out upon the deep tangle of the garden below. All the mystery and witchery…

— Kate Chopin

“She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all…

— Hannah Hurnard

“It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful…

— Katherine Mansfield

“She did not know if her gift had come from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she did…

— Stephen King

“I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of…

— Charlotte Bronte

“She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with…

— Honoré de Balzac

“And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter…

— Leo Tolstoy

“She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so that she could see the stars. They always eased her lonesomeness. She…

— Kristin Cashore

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was…

— Kate Chopin

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She was unprepared for the landscape to be so altered. For there to be no trace of that evening, forty autumns ago.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri