Peace Quote by John Updike

“The waltz allowed him to get just close enough to her to detect that maddening scent of lemons, and he inhaled it as if…

— Julia Quinn

“Warmth radiated from her skin in waves. Her pulse beneath his fingertips. The telltale flutter in her neck. Life. It mattered, was precious. And…

— J. Rose Black

“...watching it with fascination, hypnotised, as if it were stroking with its silver fingers some sealed vessel in her brain whose bursting would flood…

— Virginia Woolf

“She felt like a dry branch, sticking out of the air. Brittle, covered in old bark. Maybe she was thirsty, but there was no…

— Clarice Lispector

“He pushed a hand inside the blankets to feel her cheek, her shoulder. Trickles of water ran across her face as her hair melted.…

— Robert Jordan

“And after I told my six-year-old, grandma died in the accident, after tears and questions she suggested, maybe now is a good time to…

— Kimiko Hahn

“As Lillian walked into the orangery, she was suffused in the scent of... oranges. But lemons, bays, and myrtles also cast their fragrance extravagantly…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender…

— Roman Payne

“He was standing so close to her that he detected the faint fragrance of lemons in her hair. He sensed rather than felt the…

— Lisa Kleypas

“She saw the light again. With some irony in her interrogation, for when one woke at all, one's relations changed, she looked at the…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was carrying with her, the cold. She was holding on to that icy stone of grief. It had been there all along, sitting…

— Kali Wallace

“what avails statecraft against the love of a mother for the sweet fruit of her womb?”

— George R.R. Martin