Coffee cup Quote by John Cheever

“I used to take my morning tea at her kiosk and I took an interest in what she was doing. I later learnt she…

— Stanley Gazemba

“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place.…

— Jodi Picoult

“Dessah’s mind kept taking her to places she didn’t want to go. Hearing about her aunt’s heart attack, all of a sudden, her body…

— Holliday Vann

“There was a resident who made a habit of staying in bed all day on Friday the thirteenth, just to make sure nothing bad…

— Hendrik Groen

“This had always been the worst time when the quiet emptiness could leave him gasping for breath. She was there, his wife, a peripheral…

— Sarah Winman

“She stood by the fireplace talking, in that beautiful voice which made everything she said sound like a caress, to Papa, who had begun…

— Virginia Woolf

“Carol, a swing-shift cocktail waitress in the Bird of Paradise's show lounge had gotten home (guesswork, here) around 2:15 - 2:30, poured herself a…

— Jeff Rice

“...her melancholy mood had followed her home. It clung to her like perfume, filling the rooms she visited with the scent of loss. Surely…

— Elise K. Ackers

“He knew she drank coffee, but he knew nothing about the stuff himself, and he intentionally hung back watching other people order for a…

— Elizabeth Finn

“1:52 a.m. His favorite nightcap—coffee and Benzedrine.”

— James Ellroy

“But she loved studying and books, the way other people love wine for its power to make you forget. What else did she have?…

— Irène Némirovsky

“She was brave from wine and unseasonable sunshine and the newfound closeness of home.”

— Claire Vaye Watkins