Joy Quote by Jane Austen

“If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day by day…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“But he had held her hand, he had looked into her face in the dark hall, and a strange ecstatic entrancement had come over…

— Anna Kavan

Her eyes, though tired, had the glint of one who never stopped expecting to be amused, and her mouth turned up at the corners…

— Kate Morton

“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“...she stood back and wiped the sweat-sting from her eyes. The air was clean. Her hands brown with dirt. Pride surged through her, raw…

— Anthony Marra

“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

“she regarded with an astonishment that had in it a mild degree of amusement the violence of the feelings which it stirred in her.”

— Nella Larsen

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was…

— Kate Chopin

“He recognized her immediately when he saw her again. And what he recognized was her energy, which seemed to precede her. As if her…

— Alice Walker

She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Or else she stayed in and nursed a mood with which she was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind.…

— Kate Chopin

“the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire”

— Leo Tolstoy