Quote by Charles Dickens

“We had a teacher called Fanny Menlove, and I remember once when she was out of the room Nancy went up to the blackboard…

— Peter FitzSimons

“As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen. To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. And what…

— George Orwell

“Her soft spanish accent and her infinite arsenal of sighs.”

— Kiersten White

“She had a smooth, low voice and a naughty, shocking sense of humour. Laughter followed in her wake; she collected admirers, both male and…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“Scarlett permitted the embrace - because in the dark smoke- fill the kitchen, there had been born a greater respect for her sister in…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Merle had the feeling that he almost kissed her, but then his lips only touched her hair briefly, and all she could think of…

— Kai Meyer

“Without another word, he lifted her into the carriage and drove her home. He seemed impervious to the cold shoulder she gave him, which…

— Julia Keaton

“Her cheeks burned afresh at the memory of that final night before her departure from Sibu. She had gone to his berth out in…

— Kay Thorpe

“She was close in her husband's arms; she clung to him; whatever of strangeness and slowness and insularity she might find in him, none…

— Sinclair Lewis

“She never called her son by any name but John; 'love,' and 'dear,' and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny. But her heart…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“How explain to him that she, who had been lapped like a lily in folds of paduasoy, had hacked heads off, and lain with…

— Virginia Woolf

“marry. Fanny was having all the time what I experienced only the once with Colonel Birch in the orchard. I had my fame to…

— Tracy Chevalier