A-marriage-in-time Quote by Anna Aquino

“She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving…

— Thomas Hardy

“The bath wasn’t the best thing. Lying with him spooned up against her, listening to the rain rattle against the glass and his voice…

— Charlotte Stein

“Lava oozed up from the centre of the crater like blood from a wound. As the flaming lava touched the water it hissed and…

— Alison Cooklin

“Her knees quaked, but she swallowed the blood in her mouth and took another breath. She had not imagined it would end like this.…

— Sarah J. Maas

“But I had to admit that maybe the reason I'd had a meltdown wasn't just about the shower. I think the shower door was,…

— Sarra Manning

“There is a loquacity that tells nothing, which was Bathsheba's; and there is a silence which says much: that was Gabriel's.”

— Thomas Hardy

“It was a gorgeous calamity in scale, I thought. A lovely misfortune. Immediate and irreversible and very soon forgotten. We needed more troubles like…

— Lyndsay Faye

“she had insisted upon showing him her new showerbath. "You press that knob," she had said, "and look—" Innumerable needles of water shot down.…

— Virginia Woolf

“It was the hope in their faces that awakened me, that reminded me of what a gift I had received. I couldn’t downplay what…

— Robert J. Wiersema

“Before, there had been this small, shiny thing inside her that kept her immune from what was happening, and now she knew it had…

— Tatjana Soli

“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It…

— Brandon Sanderson

“She didn't know that I was dead inside, that I had ruled out the chance of joy ever again. Of that night and every…

— Dawn French