Bows Quote by Nicholas Sparks

“Her mind was as destitute of beauty and mystery as the prairie school-house in which she had been educated; and her ideals seemed to…

— Edith Wharton

“All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or…

— Celeste Ng

“But she loved studying and books, the way other people love wine for its power to make you forget. What else did she have?…

— Irène Némirovsky

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“Mrs. Dashwood remained at Norland several months; not from any disinclination to move when the sight of every well known spot ceased to raise…

— Jane Austen

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or…

— Katherine Anne Porter

She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been…

— Sarah Dunn

“She had a way of tidying up after people, interpreting and representing them when they were dead or absent, in the kindest light”

— A.L. Barker

“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

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

“I has always thought the world was good, that everyone could find the beauty in themselves. Everyone could honor, and forgive, and live a…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“Two hundred and fifty years of nameless, faceless, forgotten individuals. Yes, they were America's founding fathers and mothers as much as the bewigged white…

— Tara Conklin