Quote by Jane Austen

“an indication that she didn’t have any true emotions. She talked loud and was stubborn as hell, but she loved hard. When the people…

— Jackie Chanel

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

— Ian McEwan

“Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense his tragedy…

— Flannery O'Connor

“She hated official letters. They made her feel nervous. The people who wrote them sounded like they had filing cabinets where their hearts should…

— Katherine Rundell

“But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game…

— Jamie Weise

“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than…

— Jane Austen

“Most of her feelings she deemed insubstantial and she sent them packing with barely a nod of recognition. But her feelings for her daughter…

— Cathleen Schine

“Unlike him she knew this and sat many hours with her head in her hands, I thought then, to make the words fall out.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I wrote her a letter, because a letter felt like the easiest and also most dramatic way to do this kind of thing, and…

— Matt Bellassai

“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was never going to be the kind of person who didn't stick out in all directions. To want it was the same as…

— Ann Brashares