Quote by P.J. Bracegirdle

“But what little I’d heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable.”

— Neal Stephenson

“She distrusted people who were happy all the time. It simply wasn’t necessary.”

— Tim Ellis

“she freely admitted that of old she had been a little mad, and now she pretended to be perfectly sane.”

— Henry James

“But that was the problem with the old me, I was coming to realize. She'd accepted that behaving correctly meant not being happy, because…

— Margaret Rogerson

“She enjoyed being right, but as such people go, rarely was.”

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for…

— Stewart O'Nan

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“Maybe when she'd been eighteen it was a quality she might have laughed at, but at twenty-eight, dependability had turned into something of an…

— Jill Mansell

“The way adults could talk themselves into and out of feeling okay about something always amazed her.”

— Elizabeth Stuckey-French

“She secretly regarded her children as marvellous, even while she laughed down their youthful conceit and punished their naughtiness.”

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“She laughed at herself when she saw that she had expected to be at once a heretic and a returned hero; she was very…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Oh, you knew exactly what I meant. Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions…

— Lionel Shriver