Chloe Quote by Martial

Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Her life was more like a series of tattered Post-it notes with hastily scribbled goals written in dull pencil. Some of them stuck. Lots…

— Tracy Brogan

“Shortly after her older brother died, Chloe (who had just celebrated her eighth birthday) went through a deeply philosophical stage. "I began to question…

— Alain de Botton

“He searched her face for the hint of compassion. It wasn’t there. She had never written a word of fiction in her life. Why…

— James A. Newman

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was…

— Kate Chopin

“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was…

— Charles Dickens

“Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good…

— Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

“sigh, for her returning life was a tonic to his soul. Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off,…

— Winston Graham

“Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out before Naomi.…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“Deep down, Julia had always known that this artistic escape was a vain attempt to find clarity and comfort.”

— Marc Levy

“I looked, and saw: before her, cast from an unseen heavenly mirror, stood the reflection of herself, and beside it a form of splendent…

— George MacDonald

“Somewhere in your nursery rhymes,” Cranleigh said, intruding yet again, “you must have learned that men do talk. They compare. They judge. They even,…

— Claudia Dain