First-lines Quote by John Boyne

“I walked beside the woman I had killed last week and tried to hold up my end of a conversation about cats. There”

— Richard K. Morgan

“[From Old Mortality ] The woman in the picture. . . was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times.”

— Katherine Anne Porter

“The class, on the other hand, buzzed and hummed with the anticipated pleasure of writing it up, one day. They were vindicated. Miss Fox…

— A.S. Byatt

“The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and…

— Mark Twain

“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

“If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour,…

— Harper Lee

“Had we but World enough, and Time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and…

— Andrew Marvell

“she had a sudden memory of playing Fox and Geese with her father at Christmastime and of the joy-filled terror in knowing that there…

— Val Brelinski

“The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and…

— Mark Twain

“Prim and proper, a cat woman . . .Hmm, I was left to wonder. Possibly a librarian in her late forties or early fifties.…

— Debbie Macomber

“She was a very old lady indeed, or at least she looked it. She leaned on a hawthorn stick, enveloped in garments she must…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Aunt Agatha's demeanor now was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the…

— P.G. Wodehouse