Dolly Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible…

— Leo Tolstoy

“If joy is the aim and the core of existence, she thought, and if that which has the power to give one joy is…

— Ayn Rand

“A joy without object or reason rose within him, but like all such joys ebbed into frustration almost immediately because he did not know…

— John Clellon Holmes

“She understood nothing, she learned nothing, so she just stood there, lively sometimes, joyful even, a groundless joy that brought tears to their eyes,…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

“...she stood back and wiped the sweat-sting from her eyes. The air was clean. Her hands brown with dirt. Pride surged through her, raw…

— Anthony Marra

“Very gently and quietly, almost as if it were the blood singing in her veins, or the water of the stream running over stones,…

— Virginia Woolf

“She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it.…

— Laini Taylor

“She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface. Sometimes she would feel it there and…

— Diane Chamberlain

“She was sometimes happy, in the sense of being somehow complete, and ready for what another day might bring. And knows she is no…

— William Gibson

“A long time ago he learned that joy is always there, as is contentment. But sometimes they hide like gemstones, and have to be…

— Mark Romang

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface”

— Diane Chamberlain