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“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she…

— Stephen King

There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was…

— Cassandra Clare

The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.

— Prince Charles

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens.…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant.…

— Luke Davies

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

— Joyce Maynard

“From what you know of her, you will not be surprised that she threw some exaggeration and wilfulness, some pride and impetuosity, even into…

— George Eliot

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which…

— Anonymous