"Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones..."
- Sylvia Plath
"All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his duties—leaning against a hope—a hope that first had bowed, and then had broke as soon as he really tried its weight. There was n..."
- Elizabeth Gaskell
"It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther."