Canterbury tales Quote by Lauren Willig

“Lee stopped, looked north. I twas working almost like a plan. It was possible to see Intention in it...he gave no further directions...it had…

— Michael Shaara

“Well what does it matter,' he muttered when he was out in the corridor. 'Who wants to know the end of a story in…

— Cornelia Funke

“William was dazed. The entire conversation had been too overwhelming to believe, but believe it he did. He knew the earl well enough to…

— Kathryn Le Veque

“Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could…

— Jane Austen

“It was no longer an unexplained blip on his radar. There was now something solid there, and it needed to be explained and understood”

— Michael Connelly

“Great events, but it all seemed of small importance compared to what happened now, in this room. Who knew? The course of his life…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Something at the back of his mind whispered that this assignment would be like nothing he had encountered before.”

— Nicole Sager

“Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.”

— E.M. Forster

“I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.”

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“Henry lifted his head and looked directly at me. I froze where I stood, feeling as if he had just told me a secret…

— Julianne Donaldson

“The thing was, Mitchell now knew what Merton meant, or thought he did. As he took in the marvelous sights, the dusty Polo grounds,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“For a long time now he knew that anything could appear to b something else, and probably was.”

— Toni Morrison