Destiny Quote by Michelle Franklin

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.”

— Henry James

“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“She wonders when and how she decided it was sinful to heed her own destiny”

— Cherise Wolas

“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

“He could offer her an eternity of challenges and passion, of quiet, tender moments stolen in the depths of riotous flames and ravaging storms--tranquility…

— A.G. Howard

“She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“And while a part of her wanted that more than anything; to let go, embrace the despair and let it flood through her veins…

— Kyle M. Scott

“Her wish for a harmonious, organized world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and…

— Ian McEwan

“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

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“She breathed in the vast world of suffering and pure, dark love, and as she did, a well of compassion began to flow in…

— Rebecca Wells