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“Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a documentary filmmaker…

— Miriam Toews

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in…

— Ann Brashares

“This was not the career she'd dreamed of as an ambitious seventeen-year-old, but now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent and audacious…

— Liane Moriarty

“Dimple could see, flush from the endorphins of a great performance, why actors and performers got addicted to this kind of thing. It had…

— Sandhya Menon

“She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air of those perfectionist women who'd only worked…

— Rebecca Makkai

“She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with…

— Jane Austen

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires…

— Gustave Flaubert

“we don’t see any examples of her taking independent thought or action to advance her career or to grow professionally.”

— Erika Andersen

“She had liked once to think of herself as passionate, in love with her books, drunk on history, enamored of the wide world, of…

— Meredith Duran

“This was a time of life, she understood, in which you might not know what you were, but that was all right. You judged…

— Meg Wolitzer

“I investigated her topnotch features and allusive intentions. She was the typical glitter-headed scene-bitch that one expects to see in a place that is…

— J.C. Wickhart

“It wasn't her dream job, but she did quite enjoy the satisfaction of transforming a messy pile of paperwork into neat rows of figures.”

— Liane Moriarty