Heart Quote by Robin Hobb

“History, she realized, was mostly lost. No matter how diligent the recorders, the witnesses, the researchers, most of the past simply no longer existed.…

— Steven Erikson

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The…

— Lisa Cach

“The feeling, the irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of her past;…

— Milan Kundera

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

“For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her early…

— Kate Chopin

“She wanted to freeze the hands of time. Wanted to revisit, revise and rewrite the past…edit out the monsters hell-bent on taking the lives…

— R. W. Patterson

“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on…

— D.H. Lawrence

“A woman never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought. They are not to be solved, or only in one way. If her…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She says that she held on to the memory as if it were a touchstone, something that could anchor her. She knows, has always…

— Madeleine Thien

“It just felt like she'd been born with a small flaw, right at the centre of herself, a flaw somehow too shameful to be…

— Patrick Ness