Affair Quote by Kristin Cashore

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which…

— Anonymous

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

— Tad Williams

She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free…

— Janet Campbell Hale

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and…

— Lewis Carroll

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“With what characters she had filled this lost stage of emptiness! It was here that she would see the people of her imagination, the…

— Mervyn Peake

She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she…

— Dudley Clendinen

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

— Ann Brashares

“...she knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding…

— Yiyun Li

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go…

— Ian Mcewan