Able Quote by Patrick Süskind

“Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with irresistible force,…

— Jules Verne

Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out…

— Albert Camus

He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose,…

— William Watson

“His face, like everything she knew about him, was purely contradictory. That cherubic mouth with those penetrating eyes: he was too lovely to be…

— Priscilla Glenn

He was a vicious hurtful snob, I must confess. I literally despised him in the best kind of a way.

— Sara Bokhari

“In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the horror of…

— Hal Duncan

As a child, he had hardened his heart and learned to take their punches. He had learned to spit back and take down anyone…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy: lonely: awkward: unpopular: odd; no longer the self-confident…

— Anthony Powell

“A moment later he was sent sprawling on a hard wood floor. The idiots left him alone – why they thought a simple bash…

— Anne Stuart

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate…

— Ian Mcewan

And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and…

— Edith Wharton