Quote by Nella Larsen

“And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.”

— Henry James

“She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.”

— Jane Austen

“All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation,…

— Jane Austen

“There was something strange and extraordinary about her – something that was frightening and at the same time most exciting.”

— P.L. Travers

“She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at ease in the presence of anything strange. It was…

— Henry James

“I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

— Jane Austen

“I got offended when she laughed, because she was showing pleasure, but she was also showing displeasure—in all the previous moments where she hadn’t…

— Jarod Kintz

“She had to work to find her outrage again. When she did, it was whimpering in delight.”

— Thea Harrison

“But what troubled her was unutterable, and she could barely frame it for herself. Where he merely suffered conventional first-night nerves, she experienced a…

— Ian McEwan

“Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach.”

— Roald Dahl

“She laughs frequently and wildly and with a sort of precocious, tragic abandon.”

— Tennessee Williams