“How was Gengo to know, Saigyo reflected, that this unheroic existence imposed even greater torment than the icy lashings of the Nachi… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I was only trying to get you to come here. You know,classic honeymoon. Sweet young wife teaches wizened old grouch how to… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“When she woke up crying for one of her nightmares, the Kolker would stay with her, brush her hair with his hands,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I see.” A smile played on his lips. “I must do the thing properly, then. If you’ll rise?” He pressed her to… — Theresa Romain Copy Share Image
This is a book called Women in the Shade of Islam. It's published by the government of Saudi Arabia. I picked it… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“What is certain is that the world has got beyond the stage at which one may affect modesty and maidenly shame, and… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Nightwing glances at the box in my hands. She clears her throat."I understand you've decided against Mr. Middleton."... It's best to… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
“The American dream was not supposed to look like this, and when men went off the war, too often other men came… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
“One evening he appeared with an infant in his arms at the door of his ex-wife, Martha. Because Briony, his lovely young… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife. — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
“This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was. But over them both there… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
“What grief is not taken away by time? What passion will survive an unequal battle with it? I knew a man in… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“his…demands?” And then she had held her breath as if seriously expecting Isabel to answer. And last night as Isabel passed a… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
“He had had a beautiful and eager young wife and another man had taken her away from him and had fathered his… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau. — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
“What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller?… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
