Quote by Kimberly Truesdale

“She was no longer examining life, but being examined by it; she had become a real person.”

— E.M. Forster

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

— Georges Cuvier

“She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was.”

— J.G. Ballard

“She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.”

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“She believed she could. She did it, and never looked back.”

— Germany Kent

“She wondered if she was in the midst of an anecdote that, for reasons of proximity, she was not yet able to perceive.”

— Carrie Fisher

“She seemed never to be troubled by the notion that there might be two sides to a story, or more than one interpretation of…

— Vivian Gornick

“Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.”

— Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

“For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.”

— Brian Andreas

“I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“Watching her was like being caught up in the radiance of a star, and in the light, he was revealed.”

— Paula Quinn

“She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.”

— Jodi Picoult