Able Quote by Christina Stead

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched…

— Michael Ondaatje

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every…

— Anna Godbersen

And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became gradually human.…

— Philip Sington

“[She] soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one, sometimes with that, that the fresh night air was producing…

— Thomas Hardy

She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that…

— Ian Mcewan

He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very…

— Anna Godbersen

In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had…

— Toni Morrison

She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with…

— Anonymous

“She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her soul. She remembered the first night she…

— Frank L. DeSilva

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

— Emile Zola

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black,…

— Paulo Coelho