Quote by Émile Zola

“Sometimes she was seized with hallucinations and thought she was buried in some vault together with a lot of puppet-like corpses which nodded their…

— Émile Zola

“her, and glanced at the fire, and behind it. He picked out dozens of skulls, with the mounds of bones that lay next to…

— Enes Smith

“Her long body stiffened against him. Her cool fingers tightened in his shaggy fur, and her bare, clinging heels dug deep into his heaving…

— Jack Williamson

“She stood watching a ritual she had seen many times before, yet which now seemed odd and extremely archaic; as if everything - the…

— stephen r. lawhead

“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.”

— Jefferson Smith

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh

“Then, slowly, it filled her. An urge, like none she had ever known, rose out of her depths, grew in her throat, and burst…

— Jean M. Auel

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

“Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of bravery beat within her, taking up…

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

“She was in herself, like a woman near term, and did not think of the man, going on ahead, or the path, climbing upwards…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments.…

— Joseph Conrad

“Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to live…to survive...clawed at her soul.”

— R.W. Patterson