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“All got really plastered after that. Was completely fantastic evening. As Tom said, if Miss Havisham had had some jolly flatmates to take the…

— Helen Fielding

“Surely hers was the heart of a harlot.”

— Joanna Jordan

“At nine o’clock Carrie swept into the room, looking like a queen. Never have I seen her look so lovely, or so distinguished. She…

— George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

“When Miss O'Brien looked at me... what did she see that caused her to turn away? What did she see?”

— Walter Dean Myers

“Behind and byond her looks,her manner, there had been some dark malaise. But nobody ever saw it, back then, he thought. All you saw…

— Penelope Lively

“She said that; and I knew then that, careful as I have been—still and secret and silent as I have been, in my high…

— Sarah Waters

“Carrie was a girl from my music appreciation class. She had beautiful, dark brown eyes, though it was hard to notice them; she hid…

— Siel Ju

“People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know…

— Susan Vreeland

“By now Flora was really cross. Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?”

— Stella Gibbons

“... and all we knew about her that we didn't know the night before was that she had eyes like pansies and skin like…

— Glenda Millard

“And the strange thing was that it felt absolutely familiar, the curve of her arm under my hand and the weight of her head…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“Gently Agatha touched her face in the mirror, glowing from inside. A face no one recognized because it was so happy. There could be…

— Soman Chainani