Acute Quote by Martin Amis

“She almost refused the food, but refusing something that might aid her in the end was simply foolish.”

— Erica Stevens

“She shook her head from side to side, resigned to her rebellious brain. Why was there nothing it refused? No misery, no regret, no…

— Toni Morrison

“She distrusted people who were happy all the time. It simply wasn’t necessary.”

— Tim Ellis

“Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.”

— China Miéville

“She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“...she could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions.”

— Sidney Sheldon

“The fact that they were there, that everything they owned wasn’t enough somehow, disturbed her, suggesting a bottomlessness to certain kinds of unhappiness. She”

— Matthew Thomas

“She ate life with unapologetic enthusiasm and took as many helpings as she wanted.”

— Kristin Hannah

“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than…

— Jane Austen

“Don't hunger for what you can't have, she admonished herself. Take pleasure in what you can. Such thoughts had got her through the worst…

— Jennifer Ashley

“such was the way with people—they loved the things that made them miserable. She”

— Nathan Hill

“She had created her own misery. Had welcomed her own destruction. Had cast her own emotional illusions, believing in them until they became her…

— Gena Showalter