Quote by Michel Faber

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“It made her feel discouraged, like if you took the word apart into two sections of dis and couraged. It was getting harder and…

— Susan Patron

“She cared deeply about words and she hated their misuse as she would hate the clumsy handling of any fine thing.”

— John Steinbeck

“The words were pulled from her, agonizing, like a disembowelment.”

— Dawn Jayne

“She had the experience to suffer with discretion.”

— John le Carré

“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

“But what troubled her was unutterable, and she could barely frame it for herself. Where he merely suffered conventional first-night nerves, she experienced a…

— Ian McEwan

It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and…

— Jane Austen

“Disaster had shown her her limitations, and he realized now what a fine loyal character she was. Her humility was touching. She never repined…

— E.M. Forster

“It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be.”

— Charles Yu

“She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Words were the bane of her existence. She drowned in them when all she wanted was silence, only to have them recede when one…

— Nenia Campbell