Quote by Jane Austen

“and yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham.”

— Jane Austen

“Cath stood next to a lamppost, so he’d see her, and tried to look like the huntsman, not the little girl with the basket.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“Somehow, though, neither her clothes nor her features seemed to matter—they were the adornments of a painting or a picture, not the real thing.…

— Benedict Jacka

“She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.”

— Ida Hattemer-Higgins

“The likeness she had been searching for was on her face the whole time.”

— Abby Slovin

“Memories of her, however, would remain with him. Everywhere he’d look, she would be there, as if she were a hundred women, all shadow…

— Karen Ranney

“The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the”

— Mark Twain

“I thought of my picture in the Castle. But what would future girls see when they looked at the photograph during their daily comings…

— Anton DiSclafani

“She looked as petite as ever, but her delicate features and long lashes made many of the younger apprentices give her a second glance.”

— Victor Kloss

“One day, he saw her through the window of a café. She was sitting with two women, and her face, long riddled with wrinkles…

— Milan Kundera

“She gazed and wondered, like a child or peasant, and paid her silent tribute to visible grandeur.”

— Henry James

“She became a frame for the picture that was her son and daughter.”

— Erica Bauermeister