Two years Quote by Jennifer Egan

“For the first time, she felt she’d laid a glove on Doll Trapp. ‘Well, you really are full of surprises,’ she said. ‘Interesting theory.…

— Reginald Hill

“And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It’s not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream…

— Rachel Caine

“The room melts away around her and the air stands still as she sails silently towards the table. I have to lick my lips…

— Stephen Cost

“There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made me want to crush her, even to crunch her.…

— Iris Murdoch

“She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn…

— Philip Pullman

“And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she…

— Natsuo Kirino

“While you took a dull doll to pieces and threw its head away.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I felt suddenly cruel, like I'd told small children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room…

— Janet Fitch

“She didn’t look any older, so far as she could tell from the mirror, but her heart felt like somebody had been scraping the…

— Ursula Vernon

“and opening her arms wide, took my curly head within them, and gave it a good squeeze. I know it was a good squeeze,…

— Charles Dickens

“I turned to discover the faint smile of the bookseller's niece. Her voice was pure crystal, transparent and so fragile I feared that her…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a woman who…

— Edward St. Aubyn