Brainwashing Quote by James Morcan

“…her mind about as ignorant and uninformed as the female mind at seventeen usually is.”

— Jane Austen

“Shame, when she was younger, had stopped her. Fear, as she grew older, trapped the truth within her.”

— Lorraine Heath

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“Was there anything in her life that made her feel more in control than being wanted?”

— Josie Leigh

...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

— Jonathan Franzen

“No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth. These past…

— Kien Nguyen

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“no longer dealing with reasonable, intelligent adults but with temperamental lunatics who had about as much self-control as hormonal teenagers.”

— Olivia Rigal

“This was not the career she'd dreamed of as an ambitious seventeen-year-old, but now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent and audacious…

— Liane Moriarty

“She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It was the problem with creating a web of lies and deceit. It spiraled out of control until it took on a life of…

— Maya Banks

“The last few years had taught her that, bizarrely, there might be more to life than money, heists, and adrenaline. A crazy idea, no…

— Greg Cox