Botticelli Quote by Stephen Maitland-Lewis

“I scarcely know how to describe that room. It became, in a way, every room I had ever been in and every room I…

— James Baldwin

“Giovanni had awakened an itch, had released a gnaw in me. I realized it one afternoon, when I was taking him to work via…

— James Baldwin

“We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and high-spirited that…

— James Baldwin

“Very well,” Nathaniel conceded, forcing himself back to the moment. He sat back against the headboard, arms folded. “I shall follow orders, but please…

— Amber Lynn Perry

“Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring in Botticelli's…

— Marcel Proust

“Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.”

— Émile Zola

“Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr.…

— Georgette Heyer

“I feel like I have just sat down to a poison duel with a Sicilian,”

— K.F. Breene

“Oh, and Juliet," he said. I turned back. Half of his face was thrown in deep shadow, while the whites of his teeth gleamed…

— Megan Shepherd

“...his vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster.”

— Patricia Hamill

“Dionisio arose reluctantly from his bed, went to the window to see what kind of day it was, and went to the telephone to…

— Louis de Bernières

“Monsignor Luciano raised his eyebrows and folded his hands, ever the patient father, listening as his child tried to talk his way out of…

— Amy Harmon