Attitude-toward-life Quote by Miriam Karmel

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

— Robin Jones Gunn

“Most of all, she went out of her way to provide them with the kinds of experiences that would expand their understanding of what…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, they should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these…

— Ayn Rand

“Her unseen palette of human relationships forged connections, established bonds, and changed lives in ways few of the attendees understood.”

— Anthony Flacco

“She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.”

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“Would she ever learn to be content in this life she chose? She felt so strange inside. Sad and lonely and missing the life…

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had…

— Robin McKinley

“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

“Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them.”

— George Orwell

“At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.”

— Mary Gaitskill

“She had no idea how to cope with life and she was only vaguely aware of her own inner emptiness. Were she capable of…

— Clarice Lispector