Happiness Quote by Melissa Jensen

“There wasn’t much left at the end of the month for her favorite luxuries—great clothes and hardback books, but she didn’t mind. She bargain-shopped…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Edward stood, motionless as a statue, just a few feet from the mouth of the alley. His eyes were closed, the rings underneath them…

— Stephenie Meyer

“She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you…

— Frances Hardinge

“My mother always pouted that it was actually her paintings and not her charm, her beauty or her sass that made him fall in…

— Tammara Webber

“Ellen looked around the room with an odd expression, for the first few seconds not taking in the collection spread across the tables, but…

— Elizabeth Wein

“Alditha wondered if perhaps the key [to] contentment was not what they had, but seeing the beauty in what they had already been given.”

— Sarah Holman

“Edward was now expressing himself on the subject of the French King, drawing upon a vocabulary that a Southwark brothel-keeper might envy. Some of…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“The unhoped was all but granted her. She could labour on in the valley of the shadow of books, for a ray of dazzling…

— George Gissing

“What she wanted was to donate to the world a good Maud Martha. That was the offering, the bit of art, that could not…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all…

— Hannah Hurnard

“but had always felt she was a visitor. She felt disconnected and different everywhere else too, but far from being a problem this gave…

— Isabel Allende

“If she’d remained behind at Darkmoor Castle, if she’d let Edward have his way, she’d be awakening to breakfast in bed, preparing to become…

— Vivienne Savage