After Quote by Alice McDermott

“I could still see that Pauline was one of the most beautiful girls I had ever met, but of the ancient fire which had…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Mary lifted her own steno book. Only about six pages old, it still had its cool, slim heft and straight cardboard covers. By the…

— Alice McDermott

“Pauline had restored order after the ordeal of the birth. She had swallowed her revulsion—what a mess it had made—restored order, made things right…

— Alice McDermott

“There wasn’t a tear to be seen on the faces of the men and women in the street as the two of them walked…

— Alice McDermott

“Things happened in the neighborhood, yes, and there were kids she knew who got caught up, but there were others, too, who had taken…

— Naima Coster

“She navigated the last turn before the Butler town line and had to slam on the brakes when a huge obstruction appeared out of…

— Marie Force

“Ella woke again as they entered the picturesque village of Bibury. A stone bridge arched over the placid River Coln, and Ella craned her…

— Melanie Dobson

“It is of no use mincing the matter; Dr John Marsh, after being regarded by his friends at home as hopelessly unimpressible—in short, an…

— R.M. Ballantyne

“And if she were an honest woman, which she was known to be on occasion, she could readily admit that hearing about his escapades…

— Kathryn Smith

“This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed to her all the more desperately…

— Jane Bowles

“Somehow she lost her compass. Her engine failed. Her gyroscope broke. She's ... lost. She says the road she was on isn't there any…

— Brian Doyle

“She perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung into the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne