Brotherhood Quote by John Cheever

“Her limbs shrivelled and brittle, her skin wrinkled like a dry peach, her mind like a sponge squeezed out, with trickles of memories now…

— John Simmons

He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Ginny, she was rarely weepy.…

— Anonymous

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was…

— Kate Chopin

“Most of being young, she had always thought, was playing a game of elimination with an army of different selves until you settled on…

— Ted Thompson

“She was seventy-three, a widow, came in every night looking like the Queen, drank her body weight in gin and left looking like an…

— Emily Maguire

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“She secretly regarded her children as marvellous, even while she laughed down their youthful conceit and punished their naughtiness.”

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“The two sisters were excited by this style of conversation. It had never come into their minds to analyze life. They took it as…

— Emily Eden

“She was living in bad sociery; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous…

— Louisa May Alcott

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“But there were also times when she cried out in the darkness biting her lips - cried out against the substance of her age:…

— Mervyn Peake