Chick-lit Quote by Maddie Grigg

“She had turned away and was watching a duck out on the lake. It was tucking into weeds, a thing I've never been able…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I come home to an empty house and fill the sink with water. The pigeons above the window are clucking. I let the dishes…

— Eula Biss

“In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out. Miss Marple”

— Agatha Christie

“At a small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction-…

— Agatha Christie

“For instance, the headmistress, Miss Moore. I knew right away that she had come to Antigua from England, for she looked like a prune…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“... Turn over that stone" - she pointed to a flint nearby - "and you will find a charlatan who will dazzle you with…

— Ariana Franklin

“He wasn’t pleased with himself for appraising the girl in the tank. He thought of her as half-pretty, the sort of girl one would…

— Warren Ellis

“She hops expectantly into the sink. I turn on the tap for her; she laps without a glance in my direction, like a duchess…

— Peter Trachtenberg

“Then my gaze slid over the people to the blaze of green beyond the diaphanous curtains, and I felt as if I were sitting…

— Sylvia Plath

“Now I have discovered where it is that she goes. It's the guillotine that draws her, across the river in the Place Louis Quinze-…

— Sandra Gulland

“Beth, eat your greens. They’re good for you. Come on, eat your peas.” “I don’t want to,” she whined, and we turned to watch…

— Samantha Young

“Now you've a clean start... you've brushed three or four ornaments down, and in a fit of pique knocked off the rest of them.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald