Ceilings Quote by Gail Carriger

“Without his shirt she could see just how bony he was, probably twenty or thirty pounds under his fighting weight from his years in…

— Anne Stuart

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“She said little in answer to the strenuous Pressures with which at last he ventur’d to enfold her, but not thinking it Decent, for…

— Eliza Haywood

“The pain broke through the skin, dismantled her pores, and ate away at everything that was once strong. She was laid bare with nothing…

— J. Autherine

“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned…

— Charlotte Brontë

She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care…

— Stephen King

“She did not look her best: so thin, so large-nosed, with that pink-and-white checked duster tied round her head. She felt her disadvantage. But…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Now,' [her father] barked. She stiffly followed, still fully dressed in the elaborate navy-and-white gown she had worn all evening. It was hard not…

— Anne Mallory

“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

“Such she often felt herself--struggling against terrific odds to maintain her courage; to say: "But this is what I see; this is what I…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was much too thin. She was serene, like someone accustomed to sickness, someone who layed back to back with it in bed.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“Ah, but it wasn’t just her lovely face that haunted him. Nor the soft, lush body he was increasingly desperate to see liberated from…

— Tessa Dare