Confidence Quote by Manda Collins

“Of late, she had felt coldness in herself, and though she feared it, she loved it too, for it made her strong.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least…

— Emma Bull

“She liked it so much when I did that, decided what she should wear. I thought about how hard she had been trying to…

— Isabella Starling

“She didn't like to think she was so shallow that a mere dress could make her happy, but she had to concede that it…

— Julia Quinn

“From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the…

— Nevada Barr

“She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking…

— Jane Austen

“She felt the burden of loneliness lift from her, unaware that she had long been wearing it's mantle.”

— Trudy Brasure

“In a short space of time, she had become indispensable, rather like a comfortable grey gown in which one always appears respectable and can…

— Joan Smith

“It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate, to "get…

— Edith Wharton

“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

“Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.”

— William Peter Blatty

“She’d trained herself for so long not to want or to hope or to wish, that she had a hard time pinning down something…

— Wendy Wunder