Heart and mind Quote by Nicole Mones

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“She had no idea how to cope with life and she was only vaguely aware of her own inner emptiness. Were she capable of…

— Clarice Lispector

“As she wove in and out of all the people - rushing, talking, eating, laughing; some in clumps, some alone - she realized that…

— Kevin Henkes

“Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and…

— Francesca Block

“Nothing in her world aligns to the surreality of her dreams. She can feel his presence, his warmth, his depth of intent pressing against…

— Truth Devour

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way to get…

— Robert Goolrick

“For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a…

— jonathan safran foer

“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love – loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care at all…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

“She felt herself alone, lost like a stranger in some fantastic country whose language and mode of life were alike incomprehensible, surrounded by enemies…

— Anna Kavan