First time Quote by Jill Thrussell

“The situation was not easy for her, they knew. Once, at the start of last semester, she had skipped into her lecture hall singing…

— Lorrie Moore

“Dean watched her quietly as a storm of confusion whirled through his mind. What he could say to comfort her right now eluded him…

— Jill Thrussell

“She was like a sheet anchor sometimes, a steadying influence on him, on everyone around her. Made people laugh, that sensible streak in her,…

— Tim Winton

“She took care of evyone with the same no-nonsense air of friendliness and good cheer that made her seem so paradoxically wholesome, as if…

— Tom Perrotta

“It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked…

— Jane Austen

“It was a sensation she’d eventually come to know well—the precise moment when Fate came to her doorstep and beckoned her to join the…

— Armada West

“She talked to her, listened to her, read to her; and the tranquillity of such evenings, her perfect security in such a tête-à-tête from…

— Jane Austen

“After a lot of stalling and posturing, I finally admitted I had feelings for her. Most notably I felt anger and resentment, and a…

— Jarod Kintz

“I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“February was sobbing and blustering its lachrymose way into March, when she received a letter from the Dean.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“she was sensual, like all cold people, as a rule--and we both made a show of being united by a passionate, mutual love.”

— Anton Chekhov