Last chance Quote by Jane Smiley

“He strolled to the front door and stood watching, letting the picture of Felicity grave itself so deeply on his mind that when with…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Henrietta, at heart a contemplative person, enjoyed alarums and excursions for a short while only. For her a background of quiet was essential to…

— Elizabeth Goudge

Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.

— Michael Chabon

“Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an…

— Tove Jansson

“Sitting here, and thus, she had attained to a state which she could never have desired, not even conceived. And being so unforeseen, so…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“She’d spent most of her twenties dreading becoming an adult, and all of her thirties waiting to feel like an adult. The day she’d…

— Lillianna Blake

Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause.…

— Gail Carriger

“Laurel wondered whether perhaps a person reached an age when so much was kept from them, so many details of life discussed and decided…

— Kate Morton

“Felicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary.”

— Gail Carriger

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

— Stephen King

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

— Gertrude Atherton