Helena Quote by Sherry Thomas

“Helena silently put down the phone and tiptoed to the bathroom door. What should she do? Run? Knock? Walk in? Get naked? And…how should…

— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

“She never foresaw their marriage, its days and nights, other than as embowered by dazzling acres, blossoms a snowy blaze and with honeyed stamens,…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“Though the cottage was quiet, Helen sensed the change before she was even fully awake. It was like standing in a clearing and knowing…

— Corinne Beenfield

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading…

— James Hilton

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“We stayed away from the fact of Lark's existence, or anything to do with our actual thoughts.”

— Louise Erdrich

“I left the bed as she had left it, unmade and rumpled, coverlets awry, so that her body's print might rest still warm beside…

— Pierre Louÿs

“There were days that I really wished Evie had been there so that I could discuss my undying love for Lucien Knight, my hatred…

— Erin Noelle

“She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my…

— Angela Carter

“She was close in her husband's arms; she clung to him; whatever of strangeness and slowness and insularity she might find in him, none…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Though there was nothing very airy about Miss Murdstone, she was a perfect Lark in point of getting up. She was up (and, as…

— Charles Dickens