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“She lacks mystery; and the charm people have who withdraw, and don't care to coin their views. One figures her always in flight; so…

— Virginia Woolf

“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable…

— Nella Larsen

“There would be a sweet release of strength and responsibility, a sinking into another’s power, no need to feign her own. This”

— Hugh Howey

“There was money enough... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as walking bare-footed…

— Edith Wharton

“... She might have thought that it was the case, that all things worked out in the end, and that the world was a…

— Emma Straub

“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

“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So”

— James Baldwin

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune monent.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It was becoming difficult to separate her own decisions from those made by others, for her, on behalf of themselves.”

— Chris Pavone

“The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.”

— Michelle Franklin

“What she said was something about trusting that everything, no matter how horrible it might seem at the moment, ultimately turns out to be…

— Laurie Viera Rigler

“And that the surest way to bring destruction upon the things she wanted was to want them in the first place. Her”

— Molly O'Keefe