Quote by Meredith Duran

“Her knee caught him between the legs with pitiless accuracy, driving the wind from his chest, making him teeter for a breathless moment, then…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Running her fingertips across the complicated edging of the desk, she discovered that the curlicues actually formed a vine. And there were dates inscribed…

— J.R. Ward

“The child Elizabeth is wrapped tightly in layers, her fists hidden: just as well, she looks as if she would strike you. Ginger bristles…

— Hilary Mantel

“The horror of her incarceration in the Tower was a defining event Elizabeth could never forget. It made a passionate heart more circumspect, a…

— Jane Dunn

“Elizabeth lies on the bed and wonders how a broken heart can beat so fast.”

— Richard Osman

“She pitied and despised them from the bottom of her heart, as she stood on the soft carpet, looking at the old engraving of…

— Virginia Woolf

“It can't drag on this way much longer," she said to herself. "One evening he'll whistle under my window, I'll go down by a…

— Colette

“They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through…

— Hans Christian Andersen

“But here there were houses full of *stuff*, fancy sheets woven with silk floss as soft as a baby's bum; fancy washstands carved of…

— Meredith Duran

“Or she may find out what is at the end of the harbor road…that wandering, twisting road like a nice red snake, that leads,…

— L.M. Montgomery

“She was more of a marble statue under a cascade of moonlight, smelling like flowers and ivy—the glory of a weeping graveyard angel.”

— Rob Thurman

“The living result of the queen’s labors is the diminutive Mary—not really a whole princess, perhaps two-thirds of one.”

— Hilary Mantel