Daily work Quote by Marisa de los Santos

“They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees, and the clouds, and the sky over their heads, and the earth…

— Boris Pasternak

“Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary—and she herself—might yet have a chance at marriage. While…

— Tracy Chevalier

“He envied them for the one thing that was missing from him and that they had, the importance they were able to attach to…

— hermann hesse

“Thus those two beings, so exclusively and touchingly devoted, who had lived so long for each other alone, came to suffer side by side,…

— Victor Hugo

“Looking back upon the year's accumulated heap of troubles, Margaret wondered how they had been borne. If she could have anticipated them, how she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and…

— Virginia Woolf

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“This was it, a crossroad where a happy home was within her grasp, and on the other side lay years of loneliness and misery.”

— Anya Wylde

“All her life, she was used to being pampered, to having everything she desired, but the things that she valued were never those that…

— F. Sionil José

“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home…

— Tessa Dare