Quote by Edith Wharton

“The woman who had been born in an imperial palace, and then, as Queen of France, had had hundreds of rooms in her dwelling…

— Stefan Zweig

“She was a queen, yet saw through the thrones and palaces of this world.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

“Here in this old palace, untouched by the winds of change, here maybe some magic happens, for a little while. But the day must…

— John Speed

“So with the lamps all put out, the moon sunk, and a thin rain drumming on the roof, a downpouring of immense darkness began.…

— Virginia Woolfe

“He’d imprisoned himself in this castle to rot. He’d cut off all contact with the outside world. And just when he thought he’d burned…

— Tessa Dare

“And now you have a small map of the princess's heart (hatred, sorrow, kindness, empathy), the heart that she carried down inside her as…

— Kate DiCamillo

“And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious…

— Joseph Conrad

“...she is living on the outskirts of a precious world that is slipping away. On the other side of this window, events take their…

— Nicholas Dickner

“She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had…

— Joseph Conrad

“Her netlink fished for information, telling her that the palace had been built after World War IV, when the city was little more than…

— Marissa Meyer

“All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or…

— Celeste Ng

“even as he took her hand and kissed it, he fell into sleep. Then a great beauty was revealed in him, so that all…

— J.R.R. Tolkien