Fear Quote by David Foster Wallace

“Her tone held a challenge. She did not need his condemnation or what his pity. Once, she had wanted his love, but that time…

— India Drummond

“the way he talked to her. It was outrageous. It was blunt. It was impossible. And it was ... precisely what she needed, the…

— Courtney Milan

“Even hearing him say those words thrilled her. She wanted him to possess her. To desire her. To ravish her. She no longer had…

— Audra Claire

“It wasn’t that he was unhelpful, but he had the kind of vague, cheerful helpfulness that serious men soon learn to dread.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he liked it…

— Nicole Mones

“But you won't say no." She hated that his confidence was not misplaced, hated that she could refuse him nothing when he held her…

— Julia Quinn

“But he knew how to treat a woman with respect, to never demean or condescend or embarrass her in front of others.”

— Miranda Liasson

“[She] looked as if her nerves were quivering with the expectation that something would be thrown at her. But she never had anything worse…

— George Eliot

“Even the way he was the only man she’d ever met who both could and dared to hold up his side of a conversation…

— Suzanne Enoch

“But she didn’t pull away from him. If anything, she seemed to sort of melt against him. It was the first time she’d willingly…

— Maisey Yates

“He did not suggest that she sit quietly and get to know herself so she could be all the company she needed.”

— Louise Penny

“The better she understood the depths of his feelings, the more confident she would be. He wanted her confident.”

— Gena Showalter