Admonish Quote by Thomm Quackenbush

“The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity…

— Charles Williams

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than…

— Jane Austen

“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.”

— Francine Prose

“it took me a long time to realize that she, too, was cautious and bourgeois, frightened of the unknown and so uncertain of herself…

— Claire Messud

“She had the experience to suffer with discretion.”

— John le Carré

“She could tell people what to do and sound authoritative, even if underneath it all was a fear of being discovered, found out, a…

— Fiona Davis

“She knew there was enormous penalty for what they had done to her - but she could not conceive of that, did not require…

— John Hawkes

“She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Once she was face to face with the people who led the way their silence was unnerving. No one seemed to speak. They looked…

— Victoria Hislop

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one was not…

— Chris Cleave