Young ladies Quote by Susanna Clarke

“The reaction came when he realized the waste and extravagance involved. He somtimes looked back with awe at the carnivals of affection he had…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“But he never looked at his daughter, and strode out of the room, leaving in the minds of the women a sense, half of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [...] The buried thought that he might have found…

— Carey Wallace

“And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s finer emotions,…

— Thomas Hardy

“He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“He found himself smiling and talking politely to people who desired to show their respect and admiration for his uniform-instead of ignoring them and…

— Howard Fast

“He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people he had…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He had good, open features and a confident air; his blue eyes were wide and watchful, but something about them seemed to hint that…

— Sarah Brazytis

“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him.…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Those things that he held most deeply were most profoundly betrayed when he spoke of them to his classes; what was most alive withered…

— John Williams