Last year Quote by Maeve Binchy

“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look…

— Anthony Powell

“There she was, lying on a single bed in a room so small that there wasn't even space for a chair, and the first…

— Richard Yates

“Her face was not young, but it was simple; it was not fresh, but it was mild. She had large eyes which were not…

— Henry James

“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty child, and…

— Victor Hugo

“This time, the anger in her voice wasn’t there, and the tears were beginning to overflow her lower lids, starting their slow tracks down…

— Mira Grant

“She was a tiny, frailly built girl, who gave the appearance of a child masquerading in her mother’s enormous hoop skirts – an illusion…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Her rage flopped awkwardly away like a duck. She felt as she had when her cold, fierce parents had at last grown sick and…

— Lorrie Moore

“She has the same pinched look as her mother did. She”

— Lauren Oliver

“Mother was,' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and…

— Karen Abbott

“Angrily, I concentrated on her flaws, willfully studying the photographs that caught her at awkward ages and less flattering angles - long nose, thin…

— Donna Tartt

“She was twenty-five before it occurred to her that she could have insulted him back, but the rule of life was that the boys…

— Liane Moriarty

“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty…

— George Eliot