Aspect Quote by Hilary Mantel

“The imprint left on her mind by the long famished body that had seemed in the darkness to consist of nothing by sharp crags…

— Margaret Atwood

“On Claud, though, the look is very cool.) For example, today she was wearing a neon green tank top under a white oversized man’s…

— Ann M. Martin

“She was beautiful, only hers was the dark beauty of night, just as Sherry's was the bright beauty of daytime. Her hair was raven-black,…

— Cornell Woolrich

“Camille died a few days later. Our daughter's hearts bear the first real cracks they have had to endure since we came into each…

— Scott Simon

“Surely, somewhere in the back of Bulfinch, in a part Lillian had not gotten to, there is an obscure (abstruse, arcane, shadowy, and even…

— Amy Bloom

“There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured…

— Oscar Wilde

It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an…

— John Updike

“It so happens that this is particular love was precisely the sort best suited to the state of her soul. It was a sort…

— Victor Hugo

What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a…

— Camille Paglia

“She was a great and insatiable reader, surprisingly well acquainted with the classics of literature, and unexpectedly lavish in the purchase of books. Her…

— Edith OE. Somerville Martin Ross

“There were some that were of so rare a beauty that my pleasure on catching sight of them was enhanced by surprise. By what…

— Marcel Proust

“If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart,…

— L.L. Barkat