Ancient-classical-fiction Quote by Stephen A. Reger

“Rourk didn’t even know her name, but he knew he’d never seen anyone so magnificent in his life. Her wavy hair glistened in the…

— Julia Crane

“And the strange thing was: I knew that most people didn't see her as I did--if anything, found her a bit odd-looking wth her…

— Donna Tartt

“Sometimes she was Aurora. Confident. Clever. Cultured. Sometimes she was Rora. Afraid. Alone. Ashamed. And more and more, she was Roar -- bold, brash,…

— Cora Carmack

“How far away?” Her blue-and-gold eyes flickered. “I’d travel until I found a place where they’d never heard of Adarlan. If such a place…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one…

— T.A. Grey

“Perhaps he’d recently lost some bulk. But there was plenty of him remaining, and all of it was lean and hard. His body was…

— Tessa Dare

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

— Elizabeth Strout

“...she stood back and wiped the sweat-sting from her eyes. The air was clean. Her hands brown with dirt. Pride surged through her, raw…

— Anthony Marra

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin

“Her heavy breathing echoed off the thick walls, her body frozen in shock, but when Marik reappeared in the mouth of the cave, she…

— Kiersten Fay

“Now and then she looked harassed by her own potential, like certain young people, and you might notice then the way a stillness spread…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“Then she walked, walked flat out, walked with an ache coming up through the earth and into the heel of her striking foot. No…

— Alice Sebold