Faith Quote by Jane Austen

“Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but…

— Honoré de Balzac

“It was the absences that had made her think, not the presences.”

— Nick Hornby

“She believed that unadulterated devotion had its share of protective power, as if love were a steel grinder that Fates could not snip through.…

— Jodi Picoult

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“She had the experience to suffer with discretion.”

— John le Carré

“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“she had been interested in many things, but nothing had completely satisfied her; indeed, she hardly desired complete satisfaction. Her intellect was at the…

— Anton Chekhov

“At the time I made a decision, a sensible one, in which love might or might not have had a role to play. What…

— Mehreen Ahmed

“... her conviction that love that did not find its expression in a letter was not perfect.”

— Ian McEwan

“Another strange thing was how absence had intensified my feelings for her. How I craved the sweet everyday reality of just being with her,…

— Matt Haig

“She distrusted people who were happy all the time. It simply wasn’t necessary.”

— Tim Ellis