A Quote by Jennifer Egan

“Hubert's wife, Mindy, was a tiny powerhouse of a woman with a halo of wild blond hair and eye makeup so complex it took…

— Molly Harper

“She dressed in bohemian clothes, penned novels, panted, and yearned to roam forgotten corners of the world. She was habitually defiant and fearless, and…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early…

— Stella Gibbons

“Her thoughts, loosen by solitude, often burst these days through her unconscious lips; and often contradict one another (...)”

— Salman Rushdie

“In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books and mahogany,…

— Jane Smiley

“He lay, often, looking at her sleeping face in the new light that fell in through the open walls of the strange house, and…

— Iain M. Banks

“Just at that moment, Lucilla happened to cross the lawn at a distance. At sight of her, I could not, as I pointed to…

— Hannah More

What Mindy has in common with a lot of women in their mid-30s is that she's obsessed with marriage. It's the entire premise of…

— Mindy Kaling

“At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. Rather they became a…

— Thomas Hardy

“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of…

— Anais Nin

“He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all…

— Mary Shelley