Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“Then she walked, walked flat out, walked with an ache coming up through the earth and into the heel of her striking foot. No…

— Alice Sebold

“She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.”

— Angela Carter

“Even then, only a child, she knew she had to pretend to be someone else -- for her parents, for their customers, for everyone…

— Leslie Parry

“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured.”

— Kevin Brockmeier

“She had never driven far alone before. The notion of dividing her lovely journey into miles and hours was silly; she saw it [...]…

— Shirley Jackson

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“The life she'd led, each of the places she'd called home sending unexpected shoots toward the next, had made her open to almost anything.”

— Andrea Barrett

“She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were…

— Kristin Cashore

“She was about to laugh at the selfishness of her reaction, but she was distracted by the cool evening air when she stepped outside,…

— Tom Perrotta

“The first time she had tried to kill herself, she had intuited that there was no escape. She had seen, with sudden clarity, that…

— Dan Chaon

“She saw signs of another village in the distance—she smelled smoke and saw the faint glow of something like civilization. But there was nothing…

— Anne Ursu

“One often meets her destiny on the road she takes to avoid it.”

— Jessi Kirby