Books Quote by Marcel Allain

“What can I be thinking of? Just imagine my not having presented myself to you even yet! But as a matter of fact I…

— Marcel Allain

“He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of…

— A. S. Byatt

“The princess stops us walking. She holds the lantern up between us, and she looks at me with the eyes of all the princesses…

— Lauren DeStefano

“She was dressed in white, and her tunic had amazing flared sleeves which trailed on the ground behind her as she glided down the…

— Ken Follett

“Her cheeks flushed hot, the memory of their shared kisses and encounter in the hot spring sending a jolt straight to her core. She’d…

— Vivienne Savage

“She was sent to sleep under a velvety cloak of words, richly patterned and stitched with gold, straight out of a fairy tale, while…

— Eudora Welty

“The prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels, Her green eyes slant, hair flaring in a fan Of silver as the rondo slows;…

— Sylvia Plath

“She now receives love, attention, and invisible presents from a hallucinatory gentleman who visits faithfully each evening.”

— Oliver Sacks

“In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“All eyes flew to the entrance. A great gray stallion reared up in the doorway, its breath frosting the air with puffs of steam.…

— Karen Marie Moning

“...she gave thanks to the images of the stars for the joy she had had of the night, when the constellations shone in their…

— Lord Dunsany

“At the heart of the crowd walked a girl with merry eyes, a floating violet in a sea of cut-velvet and silk hose, cloth-of-silver…

— Katherine Arden