Common Quote by Jana Oliver

The guy behind the counter had been seriously adorable. Model-level cute. She had mentioned that, and Allan, her then boyfriend, hadn't taken it well.…

— Jana Oliver

“Fruit free of any bruises, not yet broken open, / With flesh so firm and smooth, it cried out to be eaten!”

— Charles Baudelaire

“Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos.”

— Shannon L. Alder

It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance.

— Guillaume Musso

“She destroyed egos by the score and made men hate themselves in the morning by the way she found them, used them, and tossed…

— Joseph Heller

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

— Graham Greene

She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride

— Tilly Bagshawe

“The difficulty, of course, with standing up to women was that it appeared to make little difference. At the end of the day,a man…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she…

— Edna O'Brien

But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that…

— Willa Cather

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

— Jane Austen