Quotes about herring
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“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Truth, Heart

“Holly frowned at her. "Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly."
"Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative affect on mental health."
"Child geniuses," growled Holly.
"Genii," said Minerva.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Lost Colony

Health, Feeling

“There's no reason for any warlock to be interested in her unless he's in the market for nonfunctional crystal balls.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in”

Elizabeth von Arnim book Vera

Source: Vera

“Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.”

Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author

Source: The Whole Woman

Beauty, Failure

“She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.”

Carson McCullers book The Member of the Wedding

Source: The Member of the Wedding

World, Light

“Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair.
"No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

Learning, Heart

“Um, thanks,” she said. It was nice to see one woman finally immune to that accent. That wasn’t to say Rose wasn’t a sucker for accents. She just preferred hers from the other side of Europe.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

Life, Death, Time

“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot."

[(, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]”

Alan Bennett (1934) English actor, author

Shoe, Personality, Clothes

“Angel raised her hand. "Excuse me. What does LTC stand for?" She blinked innocently.
"Loving Tender Care?"Gazzy suggested. If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half.
"Lieutenant colonel," he sputtered.”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

Love, Angels

“She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Pain, Way

“I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Lying

“One day, she’d find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: On the Edge

Life, Way, Idea

“A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

Feeling, Soul

“The moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Four: Soul and Body

Love, Soul

“For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.”

Yasmina Khadra book What the Day Owes the Night

Source: Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

Thinking, Dependency

“Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

People

“She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”

Dean Koontz book Lightning

Source: Lightning

Beauty

“The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.”

Shannon Hale Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

Girl, Lying, Tree

“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

“She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.”

Kate Chopin (1850–1904) American author

Source: The Awakening and Selected Stories

Sun

“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose." said Isabel”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“To his children, Will showed the same love he had always shown to her, fierce and unyielding. And the same protectiveness he had only ever showed to one other person: the person James had been named after. Will’s parabatai, Jem.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Whitechapel Fiend

Love, Children, Personality

“Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.”

Doris Day (1922–2019) American actress, singer, and animal rights activist

Beauty, Animals

“Maureen clapped her hands together. "Oh," she said in her elfin little voice. "It's pretty."
"Pretty?" Simon looked quickly at the hunched shape on top of the concrete block. "Maureen, what the hell-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Hell

“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

Christie denied having made this remark, which had been attributed to her by her second husband Sir Max Mallowan in a news report (9 March 1954); according to Nigel Dennis, "Genteel Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder", Life, Volume 40, N° 20, 14 May 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=p0wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102, she was quoting "a witty wife"; Quote Investigator reports on "An Archaeologist Is the Best Husband a Woman Can Have" as of uncertain origin. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/12/husband/ <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.