Calm Quote by Gregory Maguire

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew…

— Tonya Hurley

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people…

— Alice Walker

Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

— Danielle Steel

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could…

— Tove Jansson

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

— Abraham Verghese

“She suddenly feels a strange kind of serenity. She refuses to live what might be her last moments in a state of hopeless panic.…

— Tracy Buchanan

“She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker…

— Emily Brontë

Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect…

— Elliot Perlman

“There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, " What? " Or worse, feeling interrupted and tired, "Wha—?”

— Lorrie Moore

She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

— Sena Jeter Naslund