Nature Quote by Thomas Hardy

“There were moments when she longed blindly for anything different, anything strange, remote and untried; but the utmost reach of her imagination did not…

— Edith Wharton

“All her life she'd had little interest in the workings of boys' minds, which she imagined only as a set of flimsy pinwheels turning…

— Omar El Akkad

“They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at ease in the presence of anything strange. It was…

— Henry James

“She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful…

— Feodor Dostoevsky

“There was an aura about him that was staggering to her, making it difficult to think. It wasn't mere male heat and sensuality. It…

— Kresley Cole

“It was a strange thing about humans, she thought: first attractions were almost always based on physical appearances, which in time became the least…

— Brad Smith

“She was a masterpiece of composure; nothing ever ruffled her or made her upset, and though she was not beautiful her calmness had the…

— Donna Tartt

In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had…

— Toni Morrison

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“Anyway, how can you say things like that? You don't know me at all." She wasn't really caught up in this game, but she…

— Judith Krantz

“By the time she had grown sharper,..., she found in her mind a collection of images and echoes to which meanings were attachable- images…

— Henry James