Accepting Quote by William Faulkner

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She…

— Christine Feehan

...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't…

— Kim Edwards

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

— Ayn Rand

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for…

— Charles Bukowski

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

— Colm Toibin

all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.

— Matthew Quick

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth…

— Lisa Kleypas

The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling…

— Orhan Pamuk

All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Sometimes it saddened her to think that she’d never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out…

— Nicholas Sparks

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

— William Faulkner