Time Quote by Charles Dickens

“The light on her face was a lesson, a book that she hoped he would want to read, but he looked away from her...she…

— Caryl Phillips

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty hair and…

— Betty Neels

“The stray thought occurred to him that if it weren’t for women, in all their cloaks of unfathomed mysteries, men would lead very boring…

— Eliza Maxwell

“His passion she had expected, even his expertise, for a man of his years would not have been without women. She had even, in…

— Ruth Wind

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

— Cassandra Clare

“He looked at his watch and knew he had to get going. He wished he could spend forever staring at her, but he was…

— Daniele Lanzarotta

Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for…

— Ann Brashares

“He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged by himself,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“For the thousandth time he wished he’d just met her. That they were but two strangers traveling together, that such lovely, filthy thoughts did…

— Sherry Thomas

“He was neither good looking nor ugly, and while he would not have turned a young girl's head, someone older might have been struck…

— Nicholas Shakespeare

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination,…

— Anton Chekhov