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“Most people don't think past themselves. I know that. But I want Vera to see other people. To respect other people. To realize that…

— A.S. King

“I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.”

— Jane Lotter

“That was the heart of the difference, she thought. In her world she had learned to be . Other people seemed to gain their…

— Mary Balogh

“It was not fair, she felt, to treat people as if they were finished beings. Everyone was always becoming and unbecoming.”

— Kathleen Winter

“She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their…

— Jane Austen

“Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed…

— Victoria Dougherty

“She liked who she was becoming, despite the pain and frustration it brought.”

— B. Barmanbek

“It was respect she had for feelings, how she believed it was inimical to the soul to deny them.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She had faith that each moment would be finer than the last. She believed that people were good,”

— John Hart

“She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than…

— Jane Austen

“She had created her own misery. Had welcomed her own destruction. Had cast her own emotional illusions, believing in them until they became her…

— Gena Showalter