Grew Quote by Jane Austen

“How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been, - how eloquent, at least, were her wishes on the side of early warm attachment, and a…

— Jane Austen

In her enthusiasms she had always looked for something tangible: she had always loved church for its flowers, music for its romantic words, literature…

— Gustave Flaubert

“she had discovered that ageing and what they called "maturity" were myths, that all the years did was disqualify you from various pleasures, one…

— Sebastian Faulks

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

— George Orwell

“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she found nothing…

— Louisa May Alcott

“She had a very traditional Catholic upbringing and that didn't deter her. On the contrary it strengthened her determination to be true to herself,…

— Diane Ackerman

“She was a grown up now, and she discovered that being a grown up was not quite what she had suspected it would be…

— Stephen King

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

— Willa Cather

I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast…

— Roger Ross Williams

“She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired…

— Toni Morrison

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they…

— Christina Rossetti

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

— Christine Feehan