Contemporary-comedy Quote by Molly Harper

“We’re all toys.” Ophelia sat down in a huff. “Broken and misused and thrown away.” Ophelia looked to him. Her eyes were big, wet,…

— Eva Natsumi

“She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had…

— Victor Hugo

“Ophelia had never been prophesied before. It made her feel annoyed.”

— Karen Foxlee

“Now is all the time I have anything to do with," said Miss Ophelia.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“shows the destructive forces that affect young women. As a girl, Ophelia is happy and free, but with adolescence she loses herself. When she…

— Mary Pipher

“She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“She had found the Tears of Idihet. As she stared, they began to blur. Distantly she marveled at this: the wisdom of her body,…

— Meredith Duran

“She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“And Miss Ophelia?" he asked, getting round to her at last. "Miss Ophelia? Well, to tell you the truth, Ned, we're all rather worried…

— Alan Bradley

“The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!”

— Eugene O'Neill

“Mockery had gone too far during Hearts. There had been an attempt at strangulation and then her ear had been perforated by a fork.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“It made her question why human beings always appeared to be coming along so nicely as a whole when the bottom would fall out…

— Eve Babitz