Certain Quote by Willa Cather

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

— Jane Austen

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were…

— Jane Austen

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

— Hugh Howey

In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.

— George Crabbe

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

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was…

— John Steinbeck

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

— Ann Brashares

Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry…

— Marilyn French

“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she found nothing…

— Louisa May Alcott

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract…

— Thomas Harris

She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she--…

— Brandon Sanderson

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain