Brightness Quote by Thomas Hardy

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind…

— Kate Chopin

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off…

— Joanne Harris

A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his…

— James Joyce

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things…

— Milan Kundera

...and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky...

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

— Daniel Woodrell

“She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare…

— Kate Chopin

“...did fear drive her? Fear of the gray, not just in the strands of her hair and her wilting cheeks, but the gray that…

— Eowyn Ivey

“Yet there must be something repulsive about her somewhere, something more repelling than just a pair of eyes that couldn't see, for she'd been…

— Beverly Butler

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she…

— Ayn Rand

I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me,…

— George MacDonald