Heart Quote by Jennifer Egan

“I told her that I'd done things in my youth that had placed me beyond the comfort and shelter of love, and so i…

— Graham Joyce

“She wants to live simply and thinks luxuries little more than social display.”

— George Sayer

“I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building.”

— Lorrie Moore

“She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.”

— Willa Cather

“She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved.”

— Katie Fforde

“After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“ Story of my life , she thought miserably. She was never willing to put herself out there.”

— Kimberly Derting

“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured.”

— Kevin Brockmeier

“You only live at once." Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have an ordinary…

— Lorrie Moore

“That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.”

— Amanda Tero

“It’s my way of telling her that even though I haven’t experienced so many things, I have managed to have a life.”

— David Levithan

“It was such a light, freeing feeling to not base her life on someone else’s opinion of her.”

— Cindi Madsen