Quote by Anthony Powell Download Open image ““Later that night mutual approval took physical expression.”” — Anthony Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Once a man admitted his feelings to a woman, it either drew them together or wedged them apart.” — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“And during, I realized that the labels didn’t matter, because when two people feel that sort of pull toward each other, it just works,… — Bill Konigsberg Copy Share Image
“You’d think that after two teenage boys admitted a long-kept secret about their sexuality to each other there would be some sort of tentative… — David Crabb Copy Share Image
“His actions were subtle, his effects public. That affirmed him. That pleased him.” — Charles Graeber Copy Share Image
“Though neither of them had ever called their meeting a case of love at first sight, they'd both agreed it had certainly been a… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“Butterflies in her stomach. Because she understood his words from last night now, knew that he’d been on his very, very best behavior. Tonight… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“Initiation. What he meant was hazing. [...] Bonding and brotherhood were always the excuses, but more often it was about humiliation and channeling sexual… — Isa K Copy Share Image
“Neither one of us said anything. There was no need for words at the moment, what we’d needed to say to each other had… — D.T. Dyllin Copy Share Image
“I was marked after that. Men could smell it on me, that I had lost my body, that they could avail themselves of my… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“(...) then went into his room in the middle of the night after a long, heavy day of footwork and drinking; a coward's fight.… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty of actors… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“It is rather an occasion, darling,’ said Moreland, vexed at these objections. ‘After all, I am noted among composers for the smallness of my… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
