Bird Quote by James Joyce

She would allow him to comfort her. And perhaps, someday, she would listen patiently if a dark, dreary night found him well in his…

— Tessa Dare

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women!…

— Emile Zola

“She had always thought of her life as a series of submissions to God. What if she has been making her own decisions all…

— Padma Viswanathan

What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he…

— Anthony Marra

“It was nothing to her, that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers; she saw, not him, but them.…

— Charles Dickens

“She had a very traditional Catholic upbringing and that didn't deter her. On the contrary it strengthened her determination to be true to herself,…

— Diane Ackerman

“Would he be haunted, as she knew she would be, by the memory of the love they'd once clung to, yet tented to so…

— Joy Fielding

and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms,…

— Virginia Woolf

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him…

— Paulo Coelho

She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and…

— Amy Tan

…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose…

— Kate Chopin

“No, she’d spent the last five years begging the Lord to help her find contentment in her spinster status. And he’d been faithful. She…

— Karen Witemeyer