Absolute freedom Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“Her heart did not want to give up this burden, painful though it was ... The crushing pain in her chest was all she…

— Rosslyn Elliott

“Everything she has held back, everything she has tried to stifle, everything she has tried not to show in order to protect the people…

— Fredrik Backman

“For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry…

— Thomas Hardy

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite,…

— Isabel Allende

“She had constant tension from her magic knotted into the rooms and surrounding city, and even if that had not been the case, she…

— Kiersten White

“As her life choked away beneath the tightness , in a strange way she welcomed the physical pain over the anguished years of mental affliction.”

— Patricia Gibney

“It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“A part of her was immune to pain, numbed by humiliating experiences and hatred while the part that had known finer emotions, powerless to…

— Neetha Joseph

“For the first time in her life, she felt free. Free to do as she wished. Free to shape her future. Free to love…

— Crista McHugh

“Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her instincts, without…

— Robert Goolrick

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged…

— Mary Balogh