Telephone Calls Quote by Mikhail Bulgakov

“One left; things shifted in one's absence; one returned to something else. Time frustrated all. There was no sneaking past its rough guard, even…

— Gish Jen

“And when the governess had left, he would slip out of his own room and peer at her door until her light was extinguished…

— Sherry Thomas

“Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between eight and nine it was an…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“He returned a moment later, alone, and, after taking a moment to catch his breath, resumed his rightful place on the bench without looking…

— Barry Eisler

“Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet very nagging…

— Terry Pratchett

“That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since the early…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Anyone could run around, not many could quietly wait. As they did now. But that didn’t mean Chief Inspector Gamache and Inspector Lacoste did…

— Louise Penny

“The next ten minutes took ten hours.”

— Michael Connelly

“like a bell at the interval in the theater, and we all stood up and formed an orderly line to go in and meet…

— Edna O'Brien

“From the host’s place at the “head” of a lodge his sons sat at his left, according to age; his wives, and their visiting…

— Frank Bird Linderman

“Step by step she lived over every instant of the time she had been with Robert... She recalled his words, his looks. How few…

— Kate Chopin

“The cook, the gardener, and the guard stayed behind the main house in a cold-water shack with a rusted roof, like a piece of…

— Jeffrey Gettleman