Fashion Quote by Olivia Manning

“How I longed to tell her about Harriet--but somehow I could not. The grief in the room belonged to Porcelain and I realized, almost…

— Alan Bradley

“Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they were ill, or dead—still less because one…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“There were plenty of girls at school prettier than Harriet, and nicer. But none of them were as smart, or as brave. How could…

— Donna Tartt

“Nonsense. One day, the right man will come along, and you’ll change your mind.” Harriet wasn’t so sure. In all her twenty-four years, she’d…

— Karen Hawkins

“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that…

— Upton Sinclair

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin

“Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it.”

— Rumer Godden

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a…

— Brenda Novak

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“what she hated above all was that most men in her presence wilted, grew small and feeble. only the timid ones approached her, as…

— anaïs nin

“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

“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