Lost time Quote by John Irving

“Jenny Fields felt undone, the way only a person who has been careful can feel when confronted by a mistake.”

— John Irving

“Closing the door, Claudine looked at him. She looked at him, and while he waited for some expression to come to her face he…

— Douglas Woolf

“Miss Clerricot blushes most charmingly and raises a hand to cover a portion of her countenance. It is a shame, this ill-feeling that exists…

— William Trevor

“Jenny couldn't believe herself a multiple. She was a mother, a nurse, not that screwball who appeared on the screen like some dysfunctional figment…

— Judy Byington

“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there was a…

— Louise Erdrich

“And then there were the things Sally knew her mother would have loved. Those, too, made it easy to imagine how she might come…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“I don’t care. They can think what they want.” “Since when? What happened to the nervous, mysterious, guarded Abby I know and love?” “She…

— Jamie McGuire

“Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in sepia.”

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“Mother: “I couldn’t stand his friends from medical school. They were all pompous and awkward. They knew how to memorize but they didn’t know…

— Eula Biss

“The strange thing on looking back was the purity, the integrity of her feeling for Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a…

— Virginia Woolf