Quote by Margot Datz

“She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things…

— Willa Cather

“Her tame words chase into midair any semblance of animal nature.”

— Amy Irvine

“What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?”

— Euripides

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin

“She had that aching feeling again, that feeling she knew was happiness. It seemed not only unfamiliar but terribly fragile—and frightening. She wondered how…

— J.T. Geissinger

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a…

— Brenda Novak

“I never thought I’d see the day you retreated from anything, least of all a mere slip of a woman. (Simon) And never did…

— Kinley MacGregor

“Any creature, even one as unassuming as a fish, can become something mighty. When they courageously endure their trials, they meet their destiny.”

— Colleen Houck

“He studied her, as if she were some exotic specimen of fish he’d pulled up from the lake depths and he was deciding whether…

— Lindsay Buroker

“She was truly one of the most ancient and wildest of creatures.”

— Thea Harrison

“Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive,…

— John Fowles

“He felt like a man in a small boat under which a huge sea creature has passed, causing the boat to pitch gently. Like…

— Mary Gaitskill