Character Quote by Charles Dickens

“Out of that night and day of unconditional wrath, folks would’ve expected to see any city, if it survived, all newly reborn, purified by…

— Thomas Pynchon

“That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had suffered, both sides had legitimate grievances, both…

— David Eagleman

“Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the…

— Scott Westerfeld

“The anger that was coursing through America deeply worried her. Although she was too young to remember the beginnings of the civil rights, anti–Vietnam…

— John Sandford

The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation.…

— Edward Gibbon

“She soon learned that to survive atrocity is to be made an honorary consul to a republic of pain. There existed unspoken protocols governing…

— Omar El Akkad

“Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the…

— Jane Austen

“Welcome to the 21st century cosmopolitan world where biased thoughts preside over unbiased deeds, simple gestures become overrated gossip materials and injustice is a…

— Adhish Mazumder

“So bashful when I spied her! So pretty ― so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find ― So breathless till I…

— Emily Dickinson

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the…

— Jane Austen

“I doubt not that some shall think this woman too slight a thing to be written of and set among the remembrances of great…

— Marjorie Bowen

“[H]er attention squarely on the master of the house, whose displeasure with her looked mild but definite. Oh, but wasn’t it terrible when the…

— Meredith Duran