Quote by Jane Austen

“And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was, did not…

— Zane Grey

“He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great danger, and in the midst…

— Norbert Jacques

“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please,…

— Richard Yates

“She was incapable of dragging herself away from him; Even though talking over the situation with him had shattered her, being without him would…

— Lauren Henderson

“With Sue as companion he could have renounced his ambitions with a smile. Without her it was inevitable that the reaction from the long…

— Thomas Hardy

“What exasperated her was that Charles seemed to have no notion of her torment. His conviction that he was making her happy struck her…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try…

— Meredith Duran

“He lived like a recluse, and she wanted to seclude herself with him. But the world would intrude and demand its due.”

— Skye Warren

“Given his own amorality, he could quite easily have come to terms with her criminal tendencies, but he could never, being the snob that…

— Elizabeth Palmer

“She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.”

— Iris Murdoch

“The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened face had confronted…

— Anna Kavan