Austen Quote by Maggie Shipstead

“Ted's life was so carefully compartmentalized that he was able to be one person with one woman, and an entirely different man with another.…

— Ann Rule

“Yet, in reality, Ted loved things more than he loved people. He could find life in an abandoned bicycle or an old car, and…

— Ann Rule

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather…

— Timothy Ferriss

“And, like all the others, I have been manipulated to suit Ted’s needs. I don’t feel particularly embarrassed or resentful about that. I was…

— Ann Rule

“The experience of watching Leonard get better was like reading certain difficult books. It was plowing through late James, or the pages about agrarian…

— Jeffery Eugenides

“All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each…

— Lois Lowry

“How simple it could be! The answer to the problem of being anything was being it. How admirable Teddy was! From the ashes of…

— Laurie Colwin

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of…

— Jane Smiley

“When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.”

— Émile Zola

“I self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment, every crisis.…

— Laurie Viera Rigler

“...the manner in which we live, and that in which we ought to live, are things so wide asunder, that he who quits the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Now—after years of knowing what real problems were, after living with a man who was cautiously loving but no longer fawningly committed, a man…

— Allison Winn Scotch