Away Quote by David Leavitt

“The threads of these thoughts trailed after her throughout the rest of the day, like loose ends on a fabric, needing to either be…

— Marilyn Brant

There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly and decisively.

— Christine Feehan

...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that…

— Elizabeth Goudge

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

— Philip Pullman

“While dragging herself up she had to hang onto the rail. Her twisted progress was that of a cripple. Once on the open deck…

— Vladimir Nabokov

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“And yet, in a touching, shrunken way, she was rather pretty - a prettiness marred by her seeing to be precariously balanced on the…

— Truman Capote

“Those diversions sparked her life with momentary excitement. Without them, Charis felt she would be driven mad by the unrelenting sameness of life in…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“He thought that she looked like Winter; meaning both the girl he had once known and the season. He had always believed that winter's…

— Ben Spencer

“Ah, but it wasn’t just her lovely face that haunted him. Nor the soft, lush body he was increasingly desperate to see liberated from…

— Tessa Dare

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the…

— Elizabeth Gaskell