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“She had got beyond despair.”

— Michael McDowell

“I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favourite music, find it a…

— Janet Fitch

“She had a certain guarded melancholy, no doubt, but no despair" (44).”

— Gary A. Haugen

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“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

“Or else she stayed in and nursed a mood with which she was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind.…

— Kate Chopin

“Never had I beheld such despair.”

— Kien Nguyen

“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was…

— Diana Gabaldon

“There were no words, no capacity to form them, but there were thoughts swelling huge in her head and he was in every one…

— R. Lee Smith

“If you have endured a great despair, then, you did it alone.”

— Anne Sexton

“He'd never thought he would feel that way again. Ready to brave any sorrow just to keep her at his side. Perhaps the impulse…

— Tessa Dare

“Hope had beaten her to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier…

— Shannon Hale