Book-club-fiction Quote by Sarah Beth Martin

“Sometimes she sat and let her mind go blank and her eyes go out of focus, so that she watched the slow, jerky movements…

— Robert Goolrick

“She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected.…

— Jane Austen

“She looked from her son to Bill and back to her son again, touched by wonder that was mostly simple perplexity but partly a…

— Stephen King

“It was impossible to tell how she felt. When she tried to look inside of herself, all she saw were tangled things shifting in…

— Joshua Gaylord

“Everything had been cloaked in sensuousness, to the point where details seemed fuzzy and languid. Like the cuff of his sleeve stroking over the…

— Charlotte Stein

“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

“She wondered at her previous blindness; it was as if she had closed her eyelids, and then fancied it was night. No fear that…

— Mary Shelley

“An eerie feeling plagued the back of her mind, insisting that a supernatural force was within the room, or worse, within her!”

— J.C. Spencer

“I held her eyes in mind, took her hand in mine. The feeling of our hands touching was strange, sudden. It was a feeling…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank…

— Thrity Umrigar

“She had wanted wings, and now she was drifting, held together only by the pulsing perimeters of her skin. Even the floor that dug…

— Meredith Duran

“Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell…

— Gabriel García Márquez