Familiar Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that…

— Ian Mcewan

“often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among the living,…

— Virginia Wolf

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

— Ann Brashares

She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

— William Wordsworth

What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were…

— Kate Chopin

“She had no existence, in herself. From earliest childhood she had believed this. Rather she was a reflecting surface, reflecting others' perception of her,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he…

— Anthony Marra

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her…

— Milan Kundera

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in…

— Paule Marshall

Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to…

— Kristin Cashore

Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time…

— Anonymous