Confidence Quote by Paul Scott

“We stared at each other, bound by common experience, but each looking at the other through the steady crosshairs of inherent distrust.”

— David Grant Urban

“In that instant of eye contact, in the mesmerizing depths of that sweet emotion, she felt bound to him in a way she’d never…

— Carla Cassidy

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She was completely inside herself, and I realized I'd never seem her that way- unknowable and unknown. Exactly the way I felt. It seemed…

— Scott Hutchins

“She liked being alone, and she was alone a lot. When she met people, she often found them deeply strange, their behavior incomprehensible, their…

— Bernhard Schlink

“The two of them might as well have been alone. It was the kind of look that people in love exchanged, or people who…

— Rachel Caine

“Incessantly she puzzled him: one hour so intimate and charming, striving desperately toward an unguessed, transcendent union; the next, silent and cold, apparently unmoved…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“simple: there were two of her, one timid and cautious, one adventurous and daring, and they lived together”

— Amy Cross

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“they had an instictive ability to love, so that when they encountered each other, they fitted together in a way that made the two…

— Garth Nix

“There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to…

— Daphne du Maurier