Boxes Quote by Lewis Carroll

“She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears…

— Lewis Carroll

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

“Whenever she imagined her child, grown up without interference from a judgemental world, she imagined its male and female halves as complementing each other,…

— Kathleen Winter

As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess,…

— Tao Lin

“Looking at these people now from behind the counter, made her feel like that little girl again, the deprived child that used to press…

— Effrosyni Moschoudi

“She had not been conferred with a practical sense of how one went about this strange and all inverted business of being a girl,…

— Brian McGreevy

“She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

— Henry James

“When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window when she was…

— Leigh Bardugo

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that…

— Paulo Coelho

“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They forgot their…

— Kate Furnivall

“The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex…

— Alice Hoffman