Books Quote by Joan Didion

“If she was dark,that made her the queen of the Unseelie Court.The ones who made Vivian.The ones who wanted me dead. Great distraction,Jack.What was…

— Kiersten White

“How explain to him that she, who had been lapped like a lily in folds of paduasoy, had hacked heads off, and lain with…

— Virginia Woolf

“Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.' Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested…

— Georgette Heyer

“It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and…

— Thomas Harris

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“...she studied his clothes, his top hat. “And you’ve just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?” “It’s much like piracy. You tell…

— Meljean Brook

“...Now did you ever hear of a young feller's having such hard luck, Mrs. Burden?" Grandma told him she was sure the Lord had…

— Willa Cather

“As a fallen noble, he could only imagine the embarrassment she must have endured, when his family disowned her. To lose the respect, title,…

— Kristina Stangl

“For having been educated in a convent, she knew nothing of the customs or manners of the world; and found it difficult to understand…

— Charlotte Turner Smith

“But the best stories were about their mother, how her hair was as red as blood, how she had seventy-four freckles on her face,…

— Alice Hoffman

“The servants were so surprised at seeing me that they hurried and bustled absurdly, and made all sorts of annoying mistakes. Even the butler,…

— Wilkie Collins

“On the other side of the ledger stood the fact that fotitude was useless against it (liquor). Even the mightiest potsman, a paladin who…

— David Wondrich