Bitter Quote by Ann Brashares

“She looked up into his face, and he could see that she was full of passion, and by no means in a mood to…

— Anthony Trollope

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“he began to feel that she was very lonely indeed. “If he’d been here,” she said, “those cowards would never have dared to insult…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“He understood not only that she was close to him, but that he no longer knew where she ended and he began. He understood…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He missed her, a longing that tore deep into him. He resented her He wondered endlessly what might have happened. He changed, curled more…

— Chimanda Ngozi Adichie

“It distressed him seeing her so upset. And his distress over her distress distressed him even more. Which made no sense being that she…

— Leigh LaValle

“His face was tense, his jaw flexed as he stared at her. She could hardly stand to meet his eyes. They were an ocean…

— Aprilynne Pike

“His anger stirred her own and she suddenly thought she understood their problem: they were too polite, too constrained, too timorous, they went around…

— Ian McEwan

He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no…

— Jane Austen

“He stopped and glared at her. “It’s a lifetime commitment in my book, lady. It’s not an arrangement you nullify when things get a…

— Francine Rivers

Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald