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Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Only now, in rhythmic waves, was she struck by her stupidity, her blindness, her estheronautiness , and, above all, her longing, the insult of…

— David Grossman

Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to…

— Paulo Coelho

“There was a truth there. A wound just like she said. One that ran deep across the soul and stung the air as well.…

— Christopher Stanfield

“Esther wanted to make her brother understand that he was the sun. That he was bright and burning and brilliant, and without his warmth,…

— Krystal Sutherland

“How wrong she'd been, to believe a mind could reign over anything. For it did not reign even over itself...and despite all the arguments…

— Rachel Kadish

“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

“If you ever happen to become a clothier-cum-messenger like Esther, you'll soon learn that only wealth, might and legendary romances stir people's curiosity. Everything…

— Orhan Pamuk

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized…

— Abraham Verghese

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I wanted each woman to be a rebellious Vashti, not an Esther.

— Margaret Sanger

“All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.”

— Chuck Palahniuk