Beats Quote by John Steinbeck

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

— Willa Cather

Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

— Jane Austen

There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was…

— Cassandra Clare

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“would place beside her in my mind’s eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I’d known as a child. I was living…

— Jill Ker Conway

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any…

— Jane Austen

She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were…

— Elizabeth George

“She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them--very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of…

— Emily Brontë

She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she--…

— Brandon Sanderson

she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.

— Kim Harrison

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which…

— Anonymous