Nancy-farmer Quote by Nancy Farmer

“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and…

— Kathy Cooperman

“She knew she could drink up to a certain point, but after that she never did anything interesting like dancing on the bar with…

— Harriet Evans

“She would give herself violently, then yawn at the wrongest moment. She would spend all one day cleaning up the flat, cooking, ironing. Then,…

— John Fowles

“So Lily’s mouth would open and nothing would come out, then Louisa would start rattling on about meeting her grandmother or whether she had…

— Jojo Moyes

“She was dizzy with her own feelings, her own voice. She was flying around on a carnival machine that would not stop, she could…

— Marilyn French

“He looked up and saw her and his breath stopped in his throat. His hands stopped too, still spread above the keyboard. Harpsichord notes…

— Thomas Harris

“She ate, drank, slept again. She’d been running up and down the stairs sometime after her fourth sleep cycle when she heard sounds from…

— Kallista Dane

“That night she sat for hours, too numb to even drink, teaching herself to breathe in a vaccum. For this, oh God, was the…

— Thomas Pynchon

“She actually moved her neck back and forth as though to shake off the cumbersome weight of the sound, and realized that she had…

— Elizabeth Strout

“She waited until she finished todo it, resisting the urge to play with herself. But dammit, when they got home she'd wank herself like…

— Tymber Dalton

“She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn…

— Philip Pullman

“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follow the sound of it for a moment,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald