8 quotes found
“It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.”
“Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.”
“Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.”
“He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought?”
“As I see it, you’re always unsteady on your legs. You can’t find your courage. You’ll go to any length to avoid what displeases you, and you gallop after whatever you want. And why is that? There i...”
“I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can’t settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won’t let me. So what choice do I have but...”
“There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.”
“He seemed to become aware of a dark, imponderable force pushing him left when he meant to go right or pulling him back when he meant to go forward. Until that moment, hewould have felt certain that...”
