Women S Fiction

🇺🇸Lisa See

Literature

b. 1955

"I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same."

🇬🇧Elinor Glyn

Literature

1864–1943

"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."

🇬🇧Barbara Cartland

Literature

1901–2000

"France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door."

🇺🇸Julia Quinn

Literature

b. 1970

"Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else."

"She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference."

"There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do."

🇺🇸Tarryn Fisher

Literature

b. 1983

"Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love."