David Copperfield Quote by Gideon Rathbone

“Isaac had spent so much of the past year with his head down, focused on the filth around him, that he’d forgotten the beauty…

— Susan Fanetti

“I leaned my head on the back of the wooden chair and looked over at his handsome profile, all alight in the glow of…

— Mia Sheridan

“She stood by the fireplace talking, in that beautiful voice which made everything she said sound like a caress, to Papa, who had begun…

— Virginia Woolf

“I pictured myself sitting by the fire and knitting the Celtic mists and shadowy pools into my cloth. I pictured Jonathan getting up from…

— Barbara Trapido

“The room was so neat and tidy it made me feel quite depressed...I do not allow myself to repine about what cannot be helped;…

— Elizabeth Peters

“He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be…

— Charles Dickens

“He visited the cathedral, and sat in its chilled light, pouring like water from above. He reminded himself that centuries ago men had built…

— Rachel Joyce

“...like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of…

— Mark Slouka

“A woman gasped. Through the open door I could see a sliver of carolers, some faces peering inside at the scattered tatters of money,…

— Scott Heim

“Outside the wind had picked up a little. Isaac sheltered his prize and walked quickly up the little alley that adjoined The Dying Child…

— China Miéville

“I liked sleeping in the attic. There was no Crucifixion scene hanging at the foot of the bed to trouble me. There were no…

— Tracy Chevalier

“But now that I can see it all as from a lonely hilltop, I know it was the story of a mighty vision given…

— Black Elk