Magic words Quote by Hannah Kent

“Evil magic could flow through her like a river in full flood. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot of Agnes in…

— T. Kingfisher

“I had lost some of my naivete and gained strength. These women with their pointless scheming could not contain me, and I watched the…

— Shan Sa

“When first I saw it moving across the waves I readied myself, stood steadfast, armed for the battle ahead. But then as she stood…

— Casey Hill

“Agnes did the talking, and said it was a sudden fever, and for a woman as pious as she was, lied very well;”

— Margaret Atwood

“Alas! They were so young, so beautiful, so lonely, loving, helpless, and the hour was that in which the heart is always full, annd,…

— George Gordon Byron

“It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep, I wandered…

— Arthur Golden

“When from out of error’s darkness With a word both sure and ardent I had drawn the fallen soul, And you, filled with deepest…

— Anonymous

“He stood there unsteady in the cold, mumbling syllables which almost resolved into her name, as though he could recall, and summon back, a…

— William Gaddis

“I said in one of my letters, my dear Margaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found…

— Mary Shelley

“That afternoon of mist and drizzle, Clara Barcelo stole my heart, my breath, and my sleep. In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: that the deity who kills for pleasure will also heal, that in…

— Louise Penny

“I never had any flesh and blood children, you know. Only words, and paintings, and images of light that flickered in the darkness, and…

— Neil Gaiman