Philippine-history Quote by Ambeth Ocampo

“The veil I wore was much like the shield I had been wrapped in for my entire life. But I was ready to tear…

— C.M. Doporto

“In the way our world is, everybody shoulder to shoulder, people knowing everything about you at first glance, a good veil is your tinted…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“He studied me with his predator's gaze, assessing me from head to toe. I studied him back. He didn't just occupy space; he saturated…

— Karen Marie Moning

“because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin,”

— Greg Iles

“Philip gave him his hand and he clung to it as to life, for comfort in his extremity. Perhaps he had never really loved…

— William Somerset Maugham

“Though the pictured face was floridly coloured, you suspected pallor; a mind lightly balanced, and liable to snap from sheer weight of dreams.”

— Carter Dickson

“I wondered straightaway how he could sit at peace there, of an evening, with the row of heads staring down at him. There were…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Thoughts of Narian, the strong, brave, tender young man with whom I had fallen in love, juxtaposed against the dark entity I envisioned taking…

— Cayla Kluver

“And, let me compliment your fashionable attire, my friend. Is naked the new black?” said Rodrigo. Apparently, the two men could see each other.…

— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff