Life Quote by Mary McCarthy

“She certainly seems to have a life, not just an existence.”

— Gail Honeyman

“Her life was a scattering of small moments, bits of meaningful conversations, and bright dashes of beauty where least expected.”

— Robin Jones Gunn

“She wondered if she was alone in having nothing between the dullness of her own days and the sheer brilliance of this imagined life.”

— Colm Tóibín

“We meet her in her previous life, if only briefly, so that we're grounded in her character before any major changes to her life…

— Rob Parnell

“She is not fashioned for a life among strangers.”

— Johanna Spyri

“She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.”

— Willa Cather

“And then it struck her that life was sometimes so beautiful that it didn't seem like life at all.”

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured.”

— Kevin Brockmeier

“I would spend the rest of my life turning to speak to her.”

— Don DeLillo

“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen…

— Graham Greene

“Another strange thing was how absence had intensified my feelings for her. How I craved the sweet everyday reality of just being with her,…

— Matt Haig

“She did not want conversation or company, just the presence of other people; she hoped the background drone of their lives would fill the…

— Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson