Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Damn, she just kept on surprising him. First with her beauty. Then with the illustrations. He'd been forced to accept that there was more…

— Tessa Dare

“Lissa and I had been best friends ever since kindergarden, when our teacher had paired us together for writing lessons. Forcing five-year-olds to spell…

— Richelle Mead

“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she liked to read. The university’s “British and American Literature Course…

— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

“You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you…

— Jim Butcher

“She might be the best-dressed little girl in her elementary school class, but she was still a Greek. Her parents spoke a foreign language,…

— Suzanne Jenkins

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Lissa and I had been friends ever since kindergarten, when our teacher had paired us up together for writing lessons. Forcing five-year-olds to spell…

— Richelle Mead

“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look…

— Anthony Powell

“That is the kind of people they knew, Marguerite and her father—artists, writers, musicians.” She gave a dismissive sniff.”

— Lillian Marek

“...And how that girl did talk against time to make us think she was crazy about her Louie. She called attention to his honesty…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“They touch life with gloves on. They're pretending about something all the time. Pretending quite nice and decent things, of course. But still...' 'Everybody…

— Jean Rhys

“Well I don't remember exactly what I called her, but it was something along the lines of sniveling, repulsive, idiotic, backenridden, snaggletoothe, fat-assed bitch…

— John Green