Quote by Ian Fleming

“It was an ordinary spring day in Istanbul, a long and leaden afternoon like so many others, when she discovered, with a hollowness in…

— Elif Shafak

“Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“As I've said before," she scoffed, "you're different." "How am I different?" his exasperation was clear. "Well, it seems you are my partner in…

— Sarah MacLean

“Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I see her…

— Adrienne Rich

“She had an English boyfriend who called her more often than she needed to hear from him, a savings account, a mobile phone, an…

— Rosie Thomas

“I suddenly recalled that it was here in the squalor and gloom of this sunken street, terrorized perhaps by a premonition of the future,…

— Henry Miller

“She could hardly believe what she was hearing. How could the man who had taken her from her home—the person she had trusted with…

— A. Grace Martin

“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was…

— Charles Dickens

“If, as would sometimes happen, she had the appearance of some woman whom I had known in waking hours, I would abandon myself altogether…

— Marcel Proust

“London. In two days. London, England. May God save her...forget the queen.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

“You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before…

— Neil Gaiman

“But tonight, after the carriages left, there would be Millie, her scent like a breeze from their lavender field at the height of summer,…

— Sherry Thomas