Quote by Kate Chopin

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

— Richelle Mead

“She needed a world without so many standards and restrictions and expectations–one more friendly to a girl who thought differently from other people.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

She wanted to be irresponsible, she wanted to be looked after, to be told that she didn't have to worry about a thing and…

— Cecelia Ahern

She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.

— Rainbow Rowell

...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter…

— Susan Minot

“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So”

— James Baldwin

“She had given herself to the world in her entirety and then found nothing was left”

— Angela Carter

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

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

— Bear Grylls

“In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what…

— Michael Ondaatje

I think a lot of people have unreasonable expectations because they never stop to consider what life actually has to offer them. They're always…

— Robertson Davies

“She made a choice that day never to disregard the fact that people need to do things sometimes that others may not understand—and that…

— Patricia Strefling