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She Quotes (page 92)

Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She wanted out of the decorating scheme."
She wanted out of the decorating scheme. Jeffrey Eugenides
She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang? Wallace Stevens
...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. Thomas Hardy
She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow. Cormac McCarthy
Sherman Alexie quote: "She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks."
She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks. Sherman Alexie
Terry Prachett quote: "She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on..."
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it. Terry Prachett
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count..."
She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Terry Prachett quote: "She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then..."
She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need. Terry Prachett
Jane Austen quote: "She wished such words unsaid with all her heart"
She wished such words unsaid with all her heart Jane Austen
Jane Austen quote: "She is loveliness itself."
She is loveliness itself. Jane Austen
Sherwood Anderson quote: "she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth..."
...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them. Sherwood Anderson
She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible for us to come to the work of writing clearer, ready for the journey. (bell hooks about Toni Cade Bambara) Bell Hooks
She thinks how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. Michael Cunningham
... she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works by our best moralists, such collections of fine letters, such memoirs of characters of worth and suffering, as occurred to her at the moment as calculated to rouse and fortify the mind. Jane Austen
She told me once there is a part of her in everyone, though Neil believes I'm more Delirium than Tori, and Death taught me to accept that, you know, wear your butterflies with pride. Tori Amos

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