Fortune-s-son Quote by Emery Lee

“All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation,…

— Jane Austen

“...In a way, though, I’m almost relieved.’ ‘Relieved? Why?’ ‘Because I thought he was going to tell us that he killed her himself. For…

— Stephen King

“From these foolish embraces, which were not of very frequent occurrence, I must allow, I used to wish to extricate myself; but my energies…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“Awkward approximations, dull stammerings which cannot convey my sense of exhilaration as I seem to burst impediments, to exceed bounds of the possible, to…

— Steven Millhauser

What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up;…

— Virginia Woolf

“Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“She was a masterpiece of composure; nothing ever ruffled her or made her upset, and though she was not beautiful her calmness had the…

— Donna Tartt