Biography Quote by Peter FitzSimons

“marry. Fanny was having all the time what I experienced only the once with Colonel Birch in the orchard. I had my fame to…

— Tracy Chevalier

“In the triumphant exaltation of her feelings, Miss Fanny, using her Spanish fan with one hand, squeezed her sister's waist with the other, as…

— Charles Dickens

“It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn’t old at all, and he had exactly…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“In English class, someone flung a folded-up square of notebook paper onto the floor next to my right foot. I picked it up and…

— Gayle Forman

“Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.”

— Jane Austen

“The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and…

— Mark Twain

“Elizabeth waited until he had left and then promptly burst into laughter. She couldn’t help it, she had been soaked, threatened by a skunk,…

— Grace Willows

“We stroll on. Late in the evening we run into Willy and set off together for the barracks. En route Willy suddenly springs to…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“One day she told the class, ‘Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that’s one definition of a…

— Truman Capote

“Mom stopped reading, closed the book, and started laughing her ass off. Behind her a bunch of old dudes reading newspapers looked up at…

— Walter Sorrells

“There were times, many, many times, when she just didn't get him. She'd heard on numerous occasions that men were bad, wicked creatures, who'd…

— Charlotte Stein

“Snoopy Ned Nickerson went to the cupboard To find Nancy Drew a clue. But when he got there, Each cupboard was bare And so…

— Carolyn Keene