Ends Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“She would grab whatever she could - a look, a whisper, a moan - to salvage from perishing, to preserve. But time is most…

— Khaled Hosseini

In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running…

— Khaled Hosseini

She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled…

— Ian Mcewan

“Why, after all, did she do these things? Why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it consume her anyhow! Burn her to…

— Virginia Woolf

He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“The world could burn around her, the cities turn to dust, the cries of a hundred thousand fill the air, and she would get…

— Kameron Hurley

She will go and set the world on fire. No one ever thought she could do that.

— Kerli

She would allow him to comfort her. And perhaps, someday, she would listen patiently if a dark, dreary night found him well in his…

— Tessa Dare

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

— Roddy Doyle

She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.

— Lisa Kleypas

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

— Lisa Kleypas