Quote by Milan Kundera

“Her friends, comrades…they were like family, and to see the change that had come over them all was just another painful reminder of the…

— Victoria Lynn

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“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

“Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single…

— Jane Bowles

“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals... all equal... the strong protecting the…

— George Orwell

“Miss Chancellor would have been much happier if the movements she was interested in could have been carried on only by people she liked,and…

— Henry James

“I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor…

— Anne Brontë

“She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage…

— Paul Scott

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“... She might have thought that it was the case, that all things worked out in the end, and that the world was a…

— Emma Straub

“Her country had never been aggressive, had never espoused violence, had never taken sides in the squabbles of others. She wondered how people could…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the despairing darkness…

— Casey Fisher