Cliffs Quote by Thornton Wilder

“And it occurred to her that she was so used to turning over everything in her mind, as if each thought were an intricate…

— Jacqueline Winspear

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

— George Orwell

“She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a…

— George Orwell

“Still, the idea continued to drum through her, like the constant patter of the rain: that no one would ever love her.”

— Lauren Oliver

“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend…

— Jodi Picoult

“He vowed that the thought of her should continue ever before him to help him keep his hands as clean as a man might…

— Rafael Sabatini

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent…

— Henry James

“She’d never felt the stirrings of passion he brought out of her. She’d never felt as though she were bursting into pieces, a super…

— Sibylla Matilde

“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…

— Victor Hugo

She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous,…

— Victor Hugo

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be…

— Ayn Rand