Quote by A.S. Byatt Download Open image ““He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”” — A.S. Byatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In time, she eased into sleep, and her head rested against the plane of his shoulder. He held her and wondered that such a… — Dorien Kelly Copy Share Image
“As he turned inwards she turned outwards, but while he wore his intensity like a garment, she slept in hers.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ As he’d slept one night, suffering from some nightmare, she’d gazed down at him with tenderness. Her chest had ached with feeling for… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“back into bed and he came willingly, ashamed of the concern he saw in her sleepy face. The desperation” — Brian Harmon Copy Share Image
“He seemed so terribly weak. She would have had more respect for him if he'd told her to go fuck herself. ' I have… — Lucinda Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
“He cubbed her in his arms to sleep, even her demons snored that night ~” — Tanya Gambhir Copy Share Image
“As he slept, his heartbeat returned to slow and steady, lulling her. Before she joined him, she decided that she never wanted to sleep… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“He had slept next to her for thirty-six years, and the mattress felt different without her weight, however slight, and without the rhythm of… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Not knowing what to make of it, he admired her longer. The fact that she’d chosen his bed couldn’t be a coincidence, so he… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
“She fell asleep fairly quickly that night. As she slept just a few inches away, I watched her, trying to burn her image into… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“She looked angelic in sleep, dark lashes resting against pale cheeks. Her blond hair was tousled and in disarray and spread out. Over his… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Why do you go cold?" He kept his voice gentle. "I - I've analysed it. Because I have the sort of good looks I… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“She was a thinking child, and worked this out. It hurt her, unlike most knowledge, which was strength and pleasure.” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history),… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“All these are true and none. The place is there Is what we name it, and is not. It is .” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“ We must come to grief and regret anyway - and I for one would rather regret the reality than its phantasm, knowledge than… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Roland had learned to see himself, theoretically, as a crossing-place for a number of systems, all loosely connected. He had been trained to see… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“She thought human thoughts and stone thoughts. The latter were slow, patchily coloured, textured and extreme, both hot and cold. They did not translate… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“She looked, quickly, quickly, it was better than before, thanked him and averted her eyes. She came to trust him with her disintegration.” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
