Truth Quote by Mary Campisi

“She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could…

— Jane Austen

“Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which…

— Edith Wharton

“A fit queen for that nest of roses was the human flower that adorned it, for a year of love and luxury had ripened…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Mr. Elliot was rational, discreet, polished, – but he was not open. There was never any burst of feeling, any warmth of indignation or…

— Jane Austen

“Why must a girl pay so dearly for her least escape," Lily muses as she contemplates the prospect of being bored all afternoon by…

— Edith Wharton

“True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“A Lady's Guide to Beauty and Etiquette was starting to feel less like her saving grace and more like a nuisance. A grim reminder…

— Adalyn Grace

“Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry…

— Thomas Hardy

“Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.”

— Kate Atkinson

“Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this end, she…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She was living in bad sociery; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Lily had no heart to lean on. Her relation with her aunt was as superficial as that of chance lodgers who pass on the…

— Edith Wharton