Reading Quote by Jane Austen

“That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since the early…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

There was the gate next, which she(Liesel)clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused to go…

— Markus Zusak

“THERE WAS NO news. There were no letters. One monthly bleeding passed for Fire, with all its attendant aches and embarrassments. Everyone in her…

— Kristin Cashore

“Henry flopped onto his bed, and his steam leaked slowly out. He began telling himself a story in his head. It was about how…

— N.D. Wilson

“For having lived in Westminster — how many years now? over twenty, — one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking…

— Virginia Woolf

“Last week they shot a woman, right about here. She was a Martha. She was fumbling in her robe, for her pass, and they…

— Margaret Atwood

“Some might question why the Midnight Mayor, usually to be found on such nights prowling the streets of the city, was sighted sneaking into…

— Kate Griffin

“That plain, middle-aged face, with a grave penetrating kindness in it, seeming to tell of a human being who had reached a firm, safe…

— George Eliot

“It passed, and he began to talk excitedly to Daisy, denying everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made. But with…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“They didn't see it coming. Of course they didn't. Who wants to look for trouble, every single day? You turn away, as long as…

— Jessie Burton

“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there was something…

— V.S. Kemanis

“There had seemed no other way to view her, not until that moment when he'd fallen from the window. Rude shock: running down the…

— Meredith Duran