Hope Quote by Susan Glaspell

“Serentha sank into the chair, her hands folded in her lap and her eyes on the ground in front of her. She nodded, but…

— Ben Cassidy

“Oh" she says "the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you're sitting in a cafè. The last one left".”

— Muriel Spark

“… leaning with her back bowed into the back of the chair, her head hanging down and her hands in her lap, very miserable…

— George MacDonald

“It would be a comfort, she felt, to lean; to sit down; yes, to lie down; never, never, never to get up again.”

— Virginia Woolf

“... and most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like... like a dream which she did…

— Susan Glaspell

“Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.”

— William Peter Blatty

“Happily I didn't see her after she'd died, except for her legs, which were visible from the doorway and looked like slender tree limbs…

— Arthur Golden

“In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books and mahogany,…

— Jane Smiley

“She now lost every expectation of pleasure. They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that…

— Jane Austen

“I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted…

— Roman Payne

“Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of…

— Robertson Davies

“Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the…

— Sarah Addison Allen