Littles Quote by Haruki Murakami

“[...] because she wanted to be alone while surrounded by people.”

— Yaa Gyasi

...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.

— Susan Minot

“[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“[…] she kept the madness of her heart intact.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“[...]and her voice was mournful and sweet and drenched in pain, like an otherworldly fado.”

— Laini Taylor

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

— Joan of Arc

“She inhabited a world from which I was excluded, and she had left me in an immense empty space.”

— Alfred Hayes

[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!

— Elizabeth I

“[...] she hadn't realised how much she missed the company of women who laughed, women who spoke their own minds, women who didn't give…

— Graham Masterton

“She didn’t care if the world thought she was pretty. All she wanted was that special someone to reach beyond the surface and discover…

— Terry a O'Neal

“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”

— Roman Payne

“She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A world open…

— Nicole Mones