Backwards Quote by Marthe Bibesco

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

— Thomas Nelson Page

She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Because she was seventeen, and still alive, against thousands of years' worth of odds.Because she knew enough to fear what the future would bring.

— Lauren Kate

She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse…

— Virginia Woolf

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all…

— Lois Tilton

“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

“The first woman’s breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring which could contend with Omnipotence, the strength which could bear…

— Charlotte Brontë

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her…

— Michael Ondaatje

She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.

— Elizabeth Scott

“...Time had seemed infinite when she still had many years and decades ahead of her. A book waiting to be written: as a girl,…

— Nina George

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized…

— Abraham Verghese