High standards Quote by Joe Dunthorne

“Jordana is in the umpire's highchair. I walk under the rugby posts and on to the tennis courts, stopping a few metres in front…

— Joe Dunthorne

“First off, you should know that your daughter is going to be fine.” … “Jordan’s been through an ordeal but she is…” Incredible. Strong.…

— Julie James

“Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude…

— George Eliot

“Uriah gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy.”

— Charles Dickens

“Maybe you could tell us how you and Jordan met, Nick.” All conversation at the table stopped. Frankly, Nick was surprised it had taken…

— Julie James

“Philippa drew a deep breath, and found relief in expelling it. ‘Do you think,’ she said carefully, ‘that someone is going to be goaded…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls her pride to her aid, desires her…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Seriously. What’s with the face?” Jordan asked. “You’re scaring my cabernets with that scowl.” “I’m just working through some stuff,” he said vaguely. Jordan…

— Julie James

“The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Jordan couldn’t keep the smile off her face. “Yeah, I like this guy. He rescued me from a crazed man with a gun, he…

— Julie James

“Along with the yearning that came from some deep part of her, that was selfless and exalted, Thea had a hard kind of cockiness,…

— Willa Cather

“Spell-Cleaver. That was his title. She surveyed him with her usual disdain. But Helion gave her the same bow he’d offered me—though his smile…

— Sarah J. Maas