Harper-lee Quote by Harper Lee

“It wasn't sealed - she opened the flap. Inside was a cheque for a thousand dollars. Made out to her. From Daniel. It was…

— Lesley Lokko

“He wanted to stick his finger in it and see what happened. Some story, some quest, started here, and he wanted to go on…

— Lev Grossman

“And I could hardly have resigned myself to the simple, vulgar, direct debauchery of a clerk and have endured all the filthiness of it.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It seemed a shame to bargain with one who had learned the tricks of guarding her business, of protecting her trade against greedy intruders.”

— Murzban F. Shroff

“My attorney rubbed his hand across his mustache and the corners of his lips several times, as though the allegation was a piece of…

— Alissa Nutting

“He was particulary drawn to these two clerks by the fact that they both had crooked noses, one bent to the left and the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“She half suspected that he had had been ordered by contract to look mouth-watering at all times. If he hadn't, it was really rude…

— Andrea D. Smith

“You’ll pay for this”. I had to battle a smile. She didn’t bother to hide hers. “If you mean you’re going to tie me…

— Suzanne Wright

“The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she’d taken it hard. Her market…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“They swore in the jury, and then the lawyer for the prostitution got up and begun.”

— Mark Twain

“But what he said was true enough: I had recently destroyed a perfectly good set of wire braces by straightening them to pick a…

— Alan Bradley

“What a mess this was. Robbers too stupid to ask for money, and a victim too stupid to pretend that she didn't have any.”

— Kathleen Gilles Seidel