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“She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would…

— Virginia Woolf

“granddaughter told me she believed them to be intrusive and preferred to speak to people in”

— D.K. Hood

“I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my…

— Emily Brontë

“To interact with others exposed the fear that she had nothing of interest to say. She”

— Amanda Prowse

“She had the experience to suffer with discretion.”

— John le Carré

“She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite…

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“Allowing anyone, even Mairelon, not only to come close to her, but to circle her waist with his arms brought back old fears, though…

— Patricia C. Wrede

“She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain,…

— Thomas Harris

“It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Once she’d stepped into her room and shut the door behind her, all common sense and good intentions evaporated. She stood awestruck and mute,…

— Vivienne Savage