Quote by L.M. Montgomery

“And people think she killed him?" said Miss Tick. She sighed. "They probably think she cooked him in the oven, or something." "They never…

— Terry Pratchett

“The fiasco in the barn flashed through her mind. Yesterday she'd showered him with oats and today she'd pummeled him with a broom. At…

— Karen Witemeyer

“Her eyes held my grief, and her body gathered in my pain and knit it into herself as if she were an old marsh…

— Kim Echlin

“After conscientiously tasting fritters every day for a month Lola had put on two pounds! Her little belt bore witness to the disaster, she…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at…

— James Oswald

“But, Mrs Van Hoosier, if I may make so bold-' 'You may not,' She inserted another cake into her mouth and chewed it so…

— John Harding

“The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex…

— Alice Hoffman

“An old lady had an Alderney cow, which she looked upon as a daughter. …The whole town knew and kindly regarded Miss Betsy Barker's…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Miss Prendregast!” He rapped on his desk with his knuckles. “You were never in any danger!” “Except from the wild animals.” His lids swept…

— Christina Dodd

“The blue-backed notebooks, the two pencils and the pencil sharpener (a pocket knife was too wasteful) the marble-topped tables, the smell of early morning,…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The Dean liked to remind us that those fences were there to keep the Ticks out as much as to keep us in.”

— Emily McKay