Family life Quote by Margaret Mahy

“Her tone held a challenge. She did not need his condemnation or what his pity. Once, she had wanted his love, but that time…

— India Drummond

“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who…

— Daphne du Maurier

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever…

— Joanne Harris

“It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and…

— Elif Shafak

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn’t afraid of contempt,…

— Elena Ferrante

“It was the desire that scared her. It represented a complete surrender to the darkest part of her, the part that had no inhibitions,…

— Kristin Elyon

“All these years, her sole objective had been to keep still and hope no one would ever know. She had been a mistress of…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

“It seemed that the lust to power was a thing one grew out of. What one wanted, she thought ... was peace, and freedom…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“There was apparently nothing extraordinary in what she said, but what unutterable meaning there was for him in every sound, in every turn of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood