Quote by William Faulkner

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing…

— Kate DiCamillo

“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure…

— Alice Hoffman

“And there rose in her an unmastering desire to overcome her; to unmask her. If she could have felled her it would have eased…

— Virginia Woolf

“She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker…

— Emily Brontë

“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like…

— Willa Cather

“The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“When she learned how much God loved her, how much he valued her, the soul-corroding shame lost its power.”

— Jo Ann Fore

“She knew her own worth. She would seize her destiny with all the strength and spirit within her, and bend them all to her…

— Julie C. Dao

“She liked to believe that she might embody a grace and dignity in death that eluded her in life.”

— td Whittle

“Despite the crushing weight of the expectations placed on her, from the theological to the self-inflicted, what I needed was the last, selfless thought…

— Tammara Webber

“He could not admire her destructive loyalty to her brother. But it was born of the steel at her core. As a girl, she…

— Meredith Duran