Clash Quote by Mervyn Peake

“To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless…

— Jack Ketchum

“She wanted everyone kind and affectionate, not passionate and tormenting – everything open, no maggoty secrets and silences, and no arguments with other, darker…

— Margaret Mahy

“She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn’t afraid of contempt,…

— Elena Ferrante

“All he asked of her was basic civility and an ounce of propriety, but she was like one of her sea creatures, goaded by…

— Anonymous

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“She began to complain. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”

— Oscar Wilde

“She had enjoyed a phase where she found it easier to divide herself and argue, as it were, face to face, than to attempt…

— Michael Moorcock

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“Either the woman was incredibly malleable and naive—or she may have been open to enticement, no matter what she told the authorities. Hers is…

— Gaiutra Bahadur

“This...all this, the room, the people here,the odd little pairs and groups they'd formed, the ways each was finding to connect the others... this…

— Eileen Wilks