Sickness Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“But the weight of her anguish over Gregory – this one missing airman, this unreliable, perhaps unworthy man – filled her whole upper half,…

— Sebastian Faulks

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She found it soothing to get caught up in a brightly colored, plastic world where all that mattered was how much you ate and…

— Liane Moriarty

“For a moment the man from London and the woman in mourning considered each other in silence, each gauging temperament from the slender evidence…

— Charles Todd

“She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in…

— Veronica Rossi

“She looked long and lean and beautiful, and she was totally unaware of her looks as she called him. She had lived in a…

— Danielle Steel

“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was…

— Charles Dickens

“Wandering down the street in an aimless sort of way, cold too, in a dress from last night that made young men stop and…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“It was the summer, and Clare Bryant was happy. In the midst of the world which seemed so vast and dangerous to her, so…

— Anna Kavan

“A bevy of lovely ladies was in attendance, not one among them failing to make herself pleasant to Royce. He bore it all with…

— Josie Litton

“And indeed she did not. I thought she had a tired, dragged appearance, but I would not say so. I knew her well, and…

— Marie Corelli