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“She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made…

— Ann Napolitano

“Her opinion is that she did not struggle her way to the august age of forty-three only to have the dignity accorded to her…

— Zen Cho

“At what point in her life had she decided she didn’t deserve better than this? It was a startling discovery. The blinders had come…

— Maya Banks

“and deep down, she trusted no one but herself. That was her nature and, besides, she hated depending on other people’s speed and accuracy”

— Steffen Jacobsen

“She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play”

— Thomas Hardy

“I reckon it was always going to happen, one way or another. She wasn't made right for this world. She'd been running away from…

— Tana French

“She had still been learning how to live with the hard truth that the most interesting parts of her thoughts usually got left behind…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She was very easy to please, because she took joy in the smallest things, but exacting, too, because that small thing must be authentic,…

— Peter Heller

“it took me a long time to realize that she, too, was cautious and bourgeois, frightened of the unknown and so uncertain of herself…

— Claire Messud

“It seemed they viewed her differently now. She had status. She mattered. All at once they were interested in what she had to say.…

— Anne Tyler

“She is no longer sure that people are always improved by what they read. Furthermore, she is not sure that writers who venture into…

— J.M. Coetzee

“presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she…

— Charles Bukowski