Behinds Quote by Gustave Flaubert

...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter…

— Susan Minot

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

— Philip Larkin

There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this…

— Gabrielle Zevin

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been…

— Douglas Coupland

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in…

— Paule Marshall

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

— Rosamunde Pilcher

There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far…

— Maya Banks

“Testimony to her belief that life could be managed if things were only kept in their proper places.”

— Carolee Dean

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on…

— George Eliot

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry…

— Marilyn French

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized…

— Abraham Verghese