Quote by Josephine Tey

“... she encouraged them, allowed them to encourage her. She needed them. Because she was still not sure she could do what she had…

— David Bradley

“d it was true she experienced even the strongest pleasures and poignancies down pretty deep. They tended not to make it all the way…

— Ann Brashares

“She would not take more risks than she could help, and it was admiration, not love, that she wanted.”

— Edith Wharton

“There was an aura about him that was staggering to her, making it difficult to think. It wasn't mere male heat and sensuality. It…

— Kresley Cole

“Was there anything in her life that made her feel more in control than being wanted?”

— Josie Leigh

“She said little in answer to the strenuous Pressures with which at last he ventur’d to enfold her, but not thinking it Decent, for…

— Eliza Haywood

“She could not make herself ask whether he would be conscious and aware during these experiments. She hoped he would be.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“He had a certain almost obsequious charm. He liked talking about himself, and did not ask many questions of her. She noticed the imbalance…

— Lydia Davis

“She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

“neither of them forgave themselves for not being able to give the women they loved more than anything what they wanted more than anything.”

— Fredrik Backman

“But you won't say no." She hated that his confidence was not misplaced, hated that she could refuse him nothing when he held her…

— Julia Quinn

“Human relationships are vast as deserts: they demand all daring, she seemed to suggest. ”

— Patrick White