Fortune Quote by Robert Galbraith

“But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her into a…

— Charles Dickens

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“At times such as these, evenings in the forest, loneliness seized her like a black dog. She kept telling herself it was pure weakness,…

— Jean Zimmerman

“She is the British warm that protects his stooping shoulders, and the wintering sparrow he holds inside his hands. She is his deepest innocence…

— Thomas Pynchon

“All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire”

— George R.R. Martin

“I looked with longing at honors, wealth, and marriage, and you laughed at me. Amidst such desires I suffered most bitter troubles, but your…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Elizabeth also wept, and was unhappy; but her's also was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon,…

— Mary Shelley

“Love is a rebellious bird, that nobody can tame, and you call him quite in vain, if it suits him not to come.”

— Ludovic Halévy

“She had always experienced big, intense emotions here at Lover's Leap. Under this huge sky, surrounded by infinite beauty, she had grieved to the…

— Emily March

“Human misery was the trough from which she now fed herself and she felt more comfortable in the presence of other unlucky people. It…

— Andrew Neiderman

“For the absence of human companionship in bestial forms; the loss of green fields, free to her as to the winds of heaven, and…

— George MacDonald

“she clutched her purse and was completely composed, gracefully accepting people’s sympathies, but when they started to shovel the dirt over old dick’s coffin…

— Alice Hoffman