Time Quote by Marilyn Brant

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story. She still did not—and yet she regarded herself in…

— Kij Johnson

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“She had to think about the future, her mother said. Marriage. She was sixteen now. It was time. The word made her sick to…

— Kimberly Cutter

“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“She was in herself, like a woman near term, and did not think of the man, going on ahead, or the path, climbing upwards…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“And yet she didn't want to kill herself. She loved the world too much, and people. She loved taking long walks in the late…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead…

— Grace Willows

“And while a part of her wanted that more than anything; to let go, embrace the despair and let it flood through her veins…

— Kyle M. Scott

“She kept her face to the floor, moving in her personal oblivion, her sunflower eyes fixed on the predicament of her life we would…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past crackled behind…

— Dan Chaon