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“But this was one way of knowing people, she thought: to know the outline, not the detail, to sit in one's garden and look…

— Virginia Woolf

“I'm going to have a nice little nap in this sun. Don't think to wander off-I'll know if you move. A very light sleeper,…

— Stephanie Laurens

“Until I met you I felt so lost, Heather. We found each other, don’t you see. We found each other so we could both…

— Catou Martine

“I was distracted suddenly from these pleasant thoughts by noticing that, like the eyes in certain portraits, Heather’s nipples seemed to have the uncanny…

— Kate Atkinson

“They say she was once a grand lady and lived on the hill. But she took to reading books and went from bad to…

— The Glass Slipper screenpaly byHelen Deutsch

“who had suffered under Heather’s sadistic thumb for sixteen years, until the bitch had finally graduated high”

— Russell Blake

“As much as I enjoy her laughter, I don’t like the sound of her doubting herself. And that’s something else I’m going to have…

— D.L. Hess

“Amazing, Heather thought, looking back at the email message. Who was this incredible, gifted person?”

— Mike Wells

“Sex, Emma thought. It curdled the mind and turned one into a drooling idiot. She had firsthand knowledge.”

— Kate Rothwell

“Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it.”

— Rumer Godden

“It's more like she left some of herself behind in the walls and the floors and the books, like there's something she wants to…

— Marie Bostwick

“Mallory sat propped up in bed, her laptop, appropriately enough, in her lap,”

— Wendy Wax