Life Quote by Nan Shepherd

“Having words opened up a world of possibilities for Martha.”

— Susan Meddaugh

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“Cornered, she seemed to possess no mechanism for behaving well. By the same token, when not trapped or obliged to confront people or situations…

— Caroline Moorehead

“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in…

— Andrei Platonov

“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was in herself, like a woman near term, and did not think of the man, going on ahead, or the path, climbing upwards…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things…

— Chris Howard

“Reality revived. She frowned and gazed ahead, feeling numb still after all these months, yet unable to believe it was true, wanting to lift…

— Laura Kinsale

“She wanted to live lightly on the earth, in harmony with its rhythms, all her senses keen and her mind alive and her spirit…

— Scott Russell Sanders

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an…

— D H Lawrence