Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

“He was so easygoing, she forgot he could be deadly. And startling as his anger was, it gave her another key to understanding him.”

— Suzanne Enoch

“It wouldn't be the first time she had seen herself obliged to accept with smothered irony other people's interpretation of her conduct. She often…

— Henry James

“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

“She knew him so well, the amused, detached tone of his voice, the scroll of his ear, his eyes, his bony frame. Someone whom…

— Harriet Evans

“His anger stirred her own and she suddenly thought she understood their problem: they were too polite, too constrained, too timorous, they went around…

— Ian McEwan

“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 García Márquez

“She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun…

— Karen Chance

“She would love him so hard, so completely, so openly and without fear that the universe would shudder at her recklessness.”

— Lexi George

“Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary…

— Virgina Woolf

“She looked delighted by the prospect. Delighted that he might find the perfect woman. And there it was. His faith in a higher power…

— Julia Quinn

“This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She'd seen the kindness in him that he hid from the world, and she'd glimpsed some of the pain that he kept to himself.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon