Quote by Toni Morrison

“Be like the single blade of grass. For she too, has been trampled on, mowed down, and hit with such bitterly cold stretches that…

— Sandra Kring

“Although she was no longer weeping and appeared remarkably composed, I knew that behind that facade, someone was breaking inside. Piece by piece, she…

— Shahid Hussain Raja

“... on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she'd cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and…

— Holly Black

“During the day she carried her boy, bandaged and fed the wounded, leaving her own festering wounds until night-time when she licked them and…

— Paullina Simons

“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was…

— Charles Dickens

“The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex…

— Alice Hoffman

“They were an end-of-days couple, not naked in a garden but wrapped in layers in a snow-covered landscape where there were no more apples…

— Graham Joyce

“One morning there was newly fallen snow in the mountains. It lay halfway down them, and a raw cold, naked and biting, set in…

— Cora Sandel

“Her soul made her honest. Her soul made her kind. It made her swerve for pedestrian ants when she rode her bicycle through the…

— Sophia Elaine Hanson

“This woman’s size protected her from the hurts of the world but it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another…

— David W Earle

“She breathed deeply, and for full ten minutes stood there, like a watered plant drawing up the food of its vitality. The scent was…

— John Galsworthy

“she clutched her purse and was completely composed, gracefully accepting people’s sympathies, but when they started to shovel the dirt over old dick’s coffin…

— Alice Hoffman