Quote by James Baldwin

“He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt…

— Nadia Scrieva

“When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a…

— Osamu Dazai

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh

“She was more of a business partner to him than anything else. Some of her appreciated that. But rustling yet within her was another…

— Robert James Waller

“She studied fluidity.”

— Colum McCann

“There was something about her, something pure and fluid that could not be contained.”

— Rachel Joyce

“Like a great bog humanity swamped her, and she sank in, weak at the knees, filled with repulsion and fear of every person she…

— D.H. Lawrence

“She lay dying, wrapped in invisible robes of martyrdom, presenting her helplessness and passivity to him like adornments, and his dominant feeling was distaste.”

— Robert Galbraith

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham

“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly…

— Baroness Orczy

“There were no words that could convey what she had so recently discovered. That each instant was an eternity, each breath a whole life;…

— Muriel Maufroy

“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who…

— Daphne du Maurier