Assumptions Quote by Judith Lennox

“It was as if her life was a huge kaleidoscope, and the kaleidoscope had been turned and now everything was changed. The same stones…

— Betsy Byars

“She had enjoyed a phase where she found it easier to divide herself and argue, as it were, face to face, than to attempt…

— Michael Moorcock

“For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, messes, confinement, and double-dealings…

— Louise Erdrich

“She had the scattered feeling she always got when events conspired to mess things up, and nothing exhausted and frustrated her more than a…

— J. Robert Lennon

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“a kaleidoscopic, fragmented rush of images that exploded out of memory. They careened into her like an avalanche and swept her away,”

— Terry Brooks

“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses.”

— Eowyn Ivey

“And it occurred to her that she was so used to turning over everything in her mind, as if each thought were an intricate…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“It seemed they viewed her differently now. She had status. She mattered. All at once they were interested in what she had to say.…

— Anne Tyler

“The words were pulled from her, agonizing, like a disembowelment.”

— Dawn Jayne

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at ease in the presence of anything strange. It was…

— Henry James