Defeat Quote by Philippa Gregory

“Isabel herself could hardly have put into words the new feeling – excitement, perhaps – she felt every time she saw this man. There…

— M L Stedman - The Light Between Oceans

“That, said Isabel, is the most painful feature of lost love. you wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this moment. What…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“He sat with his yes fixed on hers while she spoke; then he lowered them and attached them to a spot on the carpet…

— Henry James

“If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be just too…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“You do not agree with my quest. I understand that, so much as it is possible to understand someone with whom I disagree so…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Isabel!' The second time James called her name, realization came crashing down around her. She became acutely aware of their location, their situation, their…

— Sarah MacLean

“for a moment, she let herself be defeated, wished herself not exactly annihilation but into a temporary absense, into being nowhere and no one…

— sue saliba

“Indulgent compassion and bending to the will of another had nearly destroyed her.”

— Jamie Beck

“Isabel had hated me on sight, and not because I was fat. Just because she could.”

— Sarah Dessen

“She was beautiful and radiant. He remembered the concern in her eyes. The same concern drove her now, pushing her toward acts of violence.…

— Ilona Andrews

“and left no doubt that Cecilia had done violence to herself.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“And I just walked away. Again and again, I walked away as her world fell down around her. As they destroyed her. We destroyed…

— Chelsea Pitcher