Bits Quote by Kate Cruise O'Brien

A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair…

— Charles Dickens

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the…

— Lilith Saintcrow

“He stalked into the room, leaned his long rifle against the mantelpiece and spread out his hands to the fire. He was clad from…

— Zane Grey

“The neat whiskey ripped into his tongue and pierced the skin on the sides of his mouth as if a razor blade had slid…

— Connor Fitzgerald

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

— Maile Meloy

“His fingernails and toenails were long and pointed,like little claws. His ears were pointed,too-and pierced with small stone hoops.He had two little hornlike nubs…

— Lauren Kate

“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as…

— Charles Dickens

“He was extremely short, five feet in heels, wearing a khaki sport coat and blue jeans. His brown hair, with long straight bangs, hung…

— Adam Ross

“What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?”

— W. C. Fields

“His mother called them his gems and often asked him why he liked things that were worn and old. It would have been hard…

— Henry Roth

“His hands, swinging curve-fingered at his sides, looked like they were molded of brown clay by a sculptor who thought big and liked veins.…

— Richard Stark

“He was six feet and lanky, with green eyes and tousled orange hair that, quite frankly, made him look like a troll pencil.”

— John Michael Hileman