Failure Quote by Richard Yates

“And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was, did not…

— Zane Grey

“Her tone held a challenge. She did not need his condemnation or what his pity. Once, she had wanted his love, but that time…

— India Drummond

“She was a failure. That's what she thought. She had come to the forest to see the world, but all she found was wretchedness.”

— Robert Beatty

“She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.”

— Michael Cunningham

“an indication that she didn’t have any true emotions. She talked loud and was stubborn as hell, but she loved hard. When the people…

— Jackie Chanel

“She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun…

— Karen Chance

“the way he talked to her. It was outrageous. It was blunt. It was impossible. And it was ... precisely what she needed, the…

— Courtney Milan

“He had a certain almost obsequious charm. He liked talking about himself, and did not ask many questions of her. She noticed the imbalance…

— Lydia Davis

“There was something of the beautiful failure about her.”

— Colum McCann

“Unfortunately for her, he was her weakness.”

— Taryn Browning

“She released a small sigh at her own stubbornness. There was no greater fool than a woman who looked at a man and saw…

— Victoria Lynne

“She knew every word that had ever been spoken, but she could think of nothing to say that might ease his grief.”

— Scott Hawkins