Classic Quote by Henry James

“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“Every rational being she believed must have some purpose in life beyond mere pleasure for pleasure's sake. Enjoyment without settled principles, laudable purposes, mental…

— Lynne Withey

“Her work was all she had or wanted. But there were times, like tonight, when she felt that sudden, peculiar emptiness, which was not…

— Ayn

“The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.”

— Michelle Franklin

“She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had an immense…

— Henry James

“She has the flames of passion emanating from deep withing her soul. She has the embers of idealism burning in her heart!”

— Avijeet Das

“And as for herself, if she could manage to welcome sorrow as readily as joy, it would shape her as deftly as joy could…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“She has the flames of passion emanating from deep within her soul. She has the embers of idealism burning in her heart!”

— Avijeet Das

“She felt a wonderful lightness of spirit, a soul-stirring joy in mere existence.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“she regarded with an astonishment that had in it a mild degree of amusement the violence of the feelings which it stirred in her.”

— Nella Larsen

“The battle between her body and mind was raging, and she was adrift in a sea of passion and desire without a life preserver.…

— Avery Gale

“Something in her was changing as she read the books. Life after life flashed before her eyes, yet she stayed safe from misery. And…

— Louise Erdrich