Quote by John Steinbeck

“Margrethe watched them paralyzed by the intensity of the emotions moving through her. So much pain and euphoria, a sense that even though her…

— Carolyn Turgeon

“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one…

— T.A. Grey

“It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found…

— Thornton Wilder

“I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on…

— Hermann Hesse

“The cruelty of it. The desecration, Margo thought with disgust. Mangling an imperfect body because of an imperfect mind.”

— Monica Starkman

“The cruelty of it. The desecration, Margo thought with disgust. Mangling a perfect body because of an imperfect mind.”

— Monica Starkman

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin

“Clent, however, suppressed any sense of pity without the slightest difficulty. His brain was busy with the icy clockwork of calculation. If only this…

— Frances Hardinge

“He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and…

— Mary Balogh

“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly…

— Baroness Orczy

“No wonder so many women had succumbed to this man, had thrown away their reputations and their honor for him…had even, if rumor could…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Through experience, he had learnt to pick up all of the unmistakable signs of vulnerability in a woman, everything that pointed to her being…

— Alice Walsh