Maid Quote by Samuel Pepys

“Like an arrow sprung from a bow Betty flashed past the Colonel and out on the green. Scarcely ten of the long hundred yards…

— Zane Grey

“If you hadn't stolen my bride away in the night, Rhysand, I would not have been forced to take such drastic measures to get…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“He took her face in his hands and kissed it, and she saw that he was laughing. "When you're an old maid in mittens…

— Daphne du Maurier

Daphne," he said with controlled gentleness, "what is wrong?" She sat down opposite him and placed a hand on his cheek. "I'm so insensitive,"…

— Julia Quinn

“A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh…

— Ernest Hemingway

“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into…

— Elizabeth Strout

“True,'' Ida Belle said, ''but despite all of that, he's still interested. I may be an old maid, but I know what male interest…

— Jana Deleon

“And you would know so much about women, locked up in your castle." "Locked up with eight wives. And sometimes I make house calls…

— Rosamund Hodge

“Frank, I ran into Gladys and Billy at the store yesterday. Do you know what he said to me?" The girls went very quiet.…

— N.D. Wilson

“I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn't. The nights when I…

— Emma Cline

“Toward the end of her life a burglar broke into her house and pistol-whipped her. She was an elderly woman by then, and it…

— Robert Wagner