Books Quote by Anonymous

“He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even more ways…

— François Lelord

“After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new. It's not the type of love that ends.”

— Emery Lord

“But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of what a perfect relationship…

— Ann Patchett

“I don’t understand,” she said at last. She understood very well, but she no longer wished to be absolutely truthful. “How are you going…

— E.M. Forster

“He is very much in love with Liz Emerson,and it seems that she will never know.”

— Amy Zhang

“but still, from family attachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a girl, with…

— Jane Austen

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by…

— Jane Austen

“There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair. Much, too, you will think, reader, to engender…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Everyone loved a good reader. And he'd always loved being a great reader - until recently. Maybe it was just part of getting older,…

— Ian Sansom

“To Lucy it was an admirable study, the contrast between the man who threw his whole soul into a certain aim, which he pursued…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I knew these elements were intended for me and me alone. There were no endearments, but I understood in part because of this restraint.…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“I lay awake long into the night, obsessing over Lucy's failings. Never mind the drugs and adultery; she seemed to lack the most basic…

— James Whitfield Thomson