Quote by Elisabeth Bowen

“The stairs were certainly steep; and in those days, when they could rarely see their own feet, women were always falling; it was a…

— John Fowles

“... a woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The sound of her footsteps was like a stream falling gently downhill over cool stones in the quiet of night.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Ascent of the rapist up the stairs seems as slow as lava. She listens to the black space where his consciousness is, moving towards…

— Anne Carson

“A sound from upstairs sends my thought process reeling. It’s just a small noise, perhaps the sound of your feet brushing the crimson carpet…

— Felicity Brandon

“As Mary said that, Lyra felt something strange happen to her body. She found a stirring at the roots of her hair: she found…

— Philip Pullman

“He pushed harder, deeper into her, his thrusts taking on a restrained violence as if he needed to give her as much of him…

— Jeannie Lin

“The men were making too much noise, laughing, joking, to cover her terrible accusing silence below. She made the empty rooms roar with accusation…

— Ray Bradbury

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“He liked the feeling of safety here in this warm and quiet room; he liked the expression of trust on the woman's face as…

— Louis Lowry

“Now, as the labor began, it was the storm she recalled. The thrash of wind and trees and the quiet terror that had kept…

— Alice McDermott

“Yesterday in the restaurant, she’d seen his sex appeal and roughness. At her house, she’d seen his danger. This morning, at the river, she’d…

— Barbara Samuel