History Quote by Lev Grossman

“She had created her own misery. Had welcomed her own destruction. Had cast her own emotional illusions, believing in them until they became her…

— Gena Showalter

“Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they're just a matter of perspective. What changed my perspective, was her.”

— Richie Singh

“He was there in her heart – as a lover, a friend, a reluctant saviour, and something else, too, that was too ethereal to…

— Dianna Hardy

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

— Grace Metalious

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“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

“She hadn’t understood loss until it had laid her to waste, and she feared what would become of her when she was again without…

— Molly Collier

“With life came loss. The war and the years since had taught her that. There's be sadness in her life to come, as well…

— Jackie French

“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

“She was all the dreams he'd lost at dawn-- dreams of everything he hadn't understood he needed until now. She was his playmate, his…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“She weeps, like all the weak people in the world, for the lost days, for the way things once were and will never be…

— Thomas Cullinan

“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had…

— Louis Bromfield