Academia Quote by Lev Grossman

“…she stretched and yawned, a suggestion of desire informing all her nerves. Extraordinary…not that she should feel desire but that she should not have…

— Jane Rule

“She felt warm and satisfied, but all the questions and uncertainty about the true nature of their connection still lurked there in the background,…

— Christa Faust

“She yawned and stretched, and settled back again on her pillows and thought how perfect it would be if sleep could not only restore…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“People made her tired. The way they were easy with one another, the way they seemed so natural, only made her sad.”

— Ann Patchett

“Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give?”

— Josephine Tey

“Of late, she had felt coldness in herself, and though she feared it, she loved it too, for it made her strong.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“But what troubled her was unutterable, and she could barely frame it for herself. Where he merely suffered conventional first-night nerves, she experienced a…

— Ian McEwan

“She was tired of the flaming thoughts of discontent that kept her awake at night.”

— Virginia Gaffney

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She said little in answer to the strenuous Pressures with which at last he ventur’d to enfold her, but not thinking it Decent, for…

— Eliza Haywood

“Or else she stayed in and nursed a mood with which she was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind.…

— Kate Chopin

“She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing…

— Kate DiCamillo