Liked Irene Quote by Sorayya Khan

“People in books were always so charming, and all their thoughts and actions so comprehensible. They all invariably had a clear, well-defined object in…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

“Later, when she examined her feeling of annoyance, Irene admitted, a shade reluctantly, that it arose from a feeling of being outnumbered, a sense…

— Nella Larsen

“Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination, and gained…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

“His face searching the bus windows looked expectant, impatient, and a little anxious. It was a husband's face. Familiar, known, increasing beloved. Mary Ann,…

— Ann Head

“For all the things that had happened to her, all the people she had met, the miles of ocean she had covered, she could…

— Peter Carey

“It amazed me. Maria had been brought up in this place, and yet she had shone like a kingfisher flickering across the water. Perhaps…

— Alex Reeve

“The trouble with Irene is that she has a valise instead of a cunt. She wants fat letters to shove in her valise.”

— Henry Miller

“Can you make a house of cards?" she asked. "Yes," Violet said, and went on looking. This way Violet had of seizing first not…

— John Crowley

“Mary was fond of her own thoughts, and could amuse herself well sitting in twilight with her hands in her lap; for, having early…

— George Eliot

“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened…

— Henry James

“Out in Saxe-Coburg Street she stood still for a moment and looked at the gardens. He kissed me, she thought. He made the move;…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Charlotte had never forgotten it - she was always looking for it. An old house facing seaward, ships going up and down. Spruce woods…

— L.M. Montgomery