Interpreter-of-maladies Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

“Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be…

— Kate Chopin

“Then May gave way to June, and it felt as if time was slipping through her fingers.”

— Sarra Manning

“I had no idea that my world was about to change because of her. Thus it is that major, climactic moments come and pass…

— Bhaskar Ghose

“The past weeks had made her tougher—or perhaps the strength had been in her all along, awaiting the chance to show itself.”

— Jayne Castel

“She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“That was it. She came out of it. She never had such a down as that or such an up as the three days…

— Sheila Heti

“She felt that she was beginning to know the pang of disappointed love, and that no other man could be the occasion of such…

— George Eliot

“I would gladly wait a hundred months for a single day like this,' he told her.”

— M.A. Kuzniar

“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed,…

— Michelle de Kretser

“This was her special time, this early part of the day when the sun was just about to creep over the horizon. It was…

— Fern Michaels

“I traveled in her orbit only for a while, but it was an exciting while and one during which it seemed that the joys…

— Randy L. Schmidt

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher