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“She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction. This wasn’t, she knew, terribly sophisticated of her, but…

— Joe Hill

“It still shocked her. In the quiet moments when she took in her surroundings. She was in friggin’ seventeenth century Scotland. Here on a…

— Angela Quarles

“He was so pale the freckles stood out on his face the way they did when he was upset or hadn't slept. She thought…

— Alice Hoffman

“She wrote his name on a piece of paper and lit it with a match. The letters curled as they turned dark and misshapen…

— Eric Overby

“Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such dainty, transparent fingers. He stood gazing in wonder at her…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He watched the newly arrived commuters as they stepped into the carriage, pushed their way down the tube, the odours from their damp clothes…

— Amanda Sington-Williams

“was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Mostly, though, he looked at the girl, with her red hair and bare white arms. There was something about the whiteness of those arms…

— Joe Hill

“She told herself that the possible relationship between Father and Thomas was the only reason she had any interest in him. But, more than…

— Amber Lynn Perry

“He slid over and before he could stop himself, gently moved the hair behind her ear. He wasn’t sure how long he stared down…

— Juliana Stone

“Out of the corner of his eye Wycliff saw the little maid’s cheeks turn pink. He’d forgotten how adorably prudish and modest English women…

— Maya Rodale

“His hair was short and parted accurately in the middle, and he had all the look of an American person who would be likely…

— Mark Twain