Afternoon Quote by Rebecca West

“But she could not breathe long on the heights; there had been nothing in her training to develop any continuity of moral strength: what…

— Edith Wharton

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much…

— Gillian Anderson

“Reasonable behavior was the last thing you wanted. You felt as if the resolution of human problems demanded passion and brute unreason, some spitting…

— William Boyd

“She had enjoyed a phase where she found it easier to divide herself and argue, as it were, face to face, than to attempt…

— Michael Moorcock

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple…

— Carolyn Kizer

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

— Thornton Wilder

She was humble and put herself down. She felt her feet were a little too big and she had a bump on her nose…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

“She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.”

— Celeste Ng

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...

— Stella Gibbons

For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or…

— Christopher Paolini

“She misunderstood my method, in my opinion, not realizing that my approach, rather obscure to those unfamiliar, was based on the idea that in…

— Jean-Philippe Toussaint