Change the world Quote by Ray Smith

“All at once the world seemed very thin to her, more an idea than an actual thing, and barely there at all. She had…

— Stephen King

“She was very easy to please, because she took joy in the smallest things, but exacting, too, because that small thing must be authentic,…

— Peter Heller

“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So”

— James Baldwin

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“She did not really like her. She would not be in a hurry to find fault, but she suspected that there was no elegance,…

— Jane Austen

“But she did believe that the fundamentals of most people remained the same throughout their lifetimes. People who were generous usually remained generous, unless…

— Sarah Mayberry

“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 did not just seem difficult – in his eyes she was the very quintessence of difficult.”

— Stieg Larsson

“Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.”

— Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

“She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great…

— Susan Power

“But of course, it had all been her – by her and about her, and now she was back in the world, not one…

— Ian McEwan

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille