Big mistake Quote by Henry James

She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.

— Henry James

“Her future was a blind spot, a blank page with an unwritten destiny, and this time, she held the pen.”

— K.L. Harris

“But a note had had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch --a small mixture of reproach with…

— Jane Austen

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The woman clearly didn't like me or the pen I wrote with.”

— Penny Pike

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve…

— Virginia Woolf

“She knew there was enormous penalty for what they had done to her - but she could not conceive of that, did not require…

— John Hawkes

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

— Rumi

“She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.”

— Christopher Poindexter

Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a…

— Rainbow Rowell

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or…

— Katherine Anne Porter

She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay