Young woman Quote by Kate Chopin

“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 had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly…

— Baroness Orczy

“. . . the romantic teenager buried deep inside her was weeping at the perversion of her love story. There was no hero in…

— Anna Zaires

“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.”

— Grace Metalious

“A terrible event had broken him down. He had fallen madly in love with a young girl and married her in a kind of…

— Guy de Maupassant

“The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love”

— Jane Austen

“her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold,…

— Margaret Mitchell

“But he had loved her, or thought he did, and that had brought her, sputtering and gasping, above the surface of his self-regard. The…

— Kij Johnson

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her early…

— Kate Chopin

“She must always remember that: love ebbed and flowed, now rich and shining, now shabby and disconsolate. One must survive the bad in order…

— Irving Stone