Quote by Jane Austen

“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.”

— Toni Morrison

“His anger stirred her own and she suddenly thought she understood their problem: they were too polite, too constrained, too timorous, they went around…

— Ian McEwan

“It was against her principles to allow anyone else to fight her battles and perhaps be injured or killed in her place.”

— Christine Feehan

“All she had to protect herself against him was silence, the one skill in which she had become an expert.”

— Sally Gardner

“It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“She could keep her silence, it was evident, as energetically as she could talk.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“She didn’t argue or resist or even speak. She simply followed him, not knowing where he was taking her. The manner in which he…

— Kristen Morgen

“Only reading, she knew, could distract her from her obssessive thoughts and restore her sense of peace.”

— Hilma Wolitzer

“There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere…

— Laini Taylor

“He hopes she knows that her words aren't being ignored. He was interrogated and had to play it safe so that the enemy wouldn't…

— Yanohu shwiggenstien

“Her silence should be feared more than her words.”

— Piper Payne

“He didn't argue; she was no warrior. But he understood now it took a different kind of courage to accept what you could not…

— Stephanie Snow