Advice Quote by Lewis Carroll

“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“She was like a sheet anchor sometimes, a steadying influence on him, on everyone around her. Made people laugh, that sensible streak in her,…

— Tim Winton

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“Well, she had her own sorry self, her own story, the snowflake of her life, but even as a child she had been unimpressed…

— Jincy Willett

“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

“The days sported by us, as if Time had not grown up himself yet, but were a child too, and always at play. I…

— Charles Dickens

“She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being…

— Jane Austen Persuasion

“...each moment of being herself, she knew, was a strengthening, an adapting, of who she was; and she didn’t want to be who she…

— Tao Lin

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils…

— Anne Rice

“She felt like a child clad in the armour of an adult. She was perplexed at the respect she received from other adults; she…

— Jerold J. Kreisman

“There was such emotion in his eyes now, she felt as though her insides were pressing on her ribcage and twisting in her middle.…

— Katharine Ashe