Certain Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“In the sudden change that had come over her heart she no longer recognized herself”

— Émile Zola

Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the…

— Andrew Sean Greer

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had…

— Evelyn Waugh

And then all of a sudden, she changed. She came back a completely different person. With a new mindset, a new outlook, A new…

— Tumblr

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

— George MacDonald

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

— Holly Black

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

— Elizabeth Hay

“She might not be able to fix the past, but she was willing to spend a lifetime showing him what love could be: beautiful…

— Kitty French

“She let her mind drift, thinking about new lingerie designs, wishing she'd brought along her sketchpad. Inspiration could strike at the most inconvenient times--in…

— Heather Barbieri

He ought to buy her a new dress. She would never accept it, of course, but maybe if her current garments were accidentally burned...…

— Julia Quinn