Eccentricity Quote by Penelope Lively

“Helen savored the peace and quiet that only came in the complete absence of stupid questions.”

— Christopher Farnsworth

“Helen hadn't realized how heavy the burden of hate had been until she was allowed to put it down.”

— Josephine Angelini

“By the time she made it up the stairs to her own front door, Helen knew several things she hadn’t known half an hour…

— Lynda Cohen Loigman

“Helen didn't yet understand that conjuring up the future was the duty of the living, what they owed to the dead.”

— Tatjana Soli

“A child’s bond to her mother cannot be understated, and my bond with Helen was a ragged, baffling, disheartening, chaotic mess. I felt crazy,…

— Cathy Lamb

“That was the heart of the difference, she thought. In her world she had learned to be . Other people seemed to gain their…

— Mary Balogh

“In the joy of her gratified desires she wanted to make everybody about her happy. If only everyone would do as she wished she…

— Edith Wharton

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that…

— Mary Stuart Masterson

“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

“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

“Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British - she…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“It wouldn't be the first time she had seen herself obliged to accept with smothered irony other people's interpretation of her conduct. She often…

— Henry James