Great expectations Quote by Charles Dickens

“Unexpectedly, she took several trotting steps and then threw in a couple of feeble attempts at bucking! She felt good enough to try and…

— Kim Meeder

“bored, the strikes almost lazy. The blades made an echoing clang that reverberated up her spine, sending tiny vibrations down the arches of her…

— Francesca Vance

“She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her…

— John Kennedy Toole

“I opened my mouth and projectile-vomited on her from head to toe. The more I retched, the more I had to retch. It was…

— Robyn Peterman

“Just when she thought she could feel nothing more, he began to increase his pace, strokes that pushed her over the edge. The storm…

— Karen Ranney

“Drawing a breath, I flung myself across the door sill. That was the artless way I navigated the hurdles of girlhood. Everyone thought I…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex…

— Alice Hoffman

“Her rage flopped awkwardly away like a duck. She felt as she had when her cold, fierce parents had at last grown sick and…

— Lorrie Moore

“I once told Amanda, my best friend in high school, that I could never be with someone who wasn’t excited by rainstorms. So when…

— David Levithan

“Anyone who takes on my sister," he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, "will have to deal with ...my sister." And then he'd dived…

— Laini Taylor

“One time, she waddled out and showed Peg her bandages from her last suicide attempt, which invokes sympathy in some, but usually makes me…

— David James Keaton

“You do not spit when your sister may suffer my wrath. I should keep her, I think. She is a brave warrior, no?” Loretta’s…

— Catherine Anderson