Big mistake Quote by Henry James

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small 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

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

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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 thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

— Alice Walker

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and…

— Erica Bauermeister

“If she had spurned gifts from fate or God or some other earnest substitute, she would never feel it in that way. She felt…

— Moore Lorrie

“She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but…

— Thomas Love Peacock

It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed…

— Maggie Stiefvater