Time Quote by Ford Madox Ford

“If, as would sometimes happen, she had the appearance of some woman whom I had known in waking hours, I would abandon myself altogether…

— Marcel Proust

“Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the…

— Walter Scott

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“It is enough to say that her perception of the endless interest of the place was such as might have been expected in a…

— Henry James

“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so…

— John Williams

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

“There was an aura about him that was staggering to her, making it difficult to think. It wasn't mere male heat and sensuality. It…

— Kresley Cole

“She was living in bad sociery; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Her features were dainty, her small slender wrists climbed up to become the delicate shoulders that beckoned him. Her skin was like peach-tinted cream…

— Faraaz Kazi

“Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Because somehow, even with the encumbrance of such an unfortunate and isolating occupation, she walked through darkness with elegance, navigating the corridors of life…

— Tahereh Mafi

“..and she had started to relax - but she was relaxing into something terrible, and she was going about the world in a state…

— John Burnside