God help Quote by Victoria Vane

“And then there was Lydia. Lydia who had hurtled into his life – into their lives – with hair like fire, eyes like amethysts…

— Dianna Hardy

“Everything that she had wanted for Lydia, which Lydia had never wanted but had embraced anyway. A dull chill creeps over her. Perhaps—and this…

— Celeste Ng

“Lydia delighted her. The girl's roughness, her ability, her exuberance, were qualities desired by Sarah for her children. You could make something out of…

— Winifred Holtby

“And what she loved about Lydia’s play: that it gets at this idea that true sacrifice is painless.”

— Jess Walter

“In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia”

— Jane Austen

“It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.”

— Lawana Blackwell

“Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it.…

— Jude Morgan

“Without knowing it he drew a very pleasant picture of an affectionate, happy family who lived unpretentiously in circumstances of moderate affluence at peace…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“How interesting, she mused, that we pick up and repeat the qualities of those closest to us, like walking reflections, whether they be good…

— Christina McKenna

“what she hated above all was that most men in her presence wilted, grew small and feeble. only the timid ones approached her, as…

— anaïs nin

“His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and went back into it.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham