Hypocrisy Quote by Tehmina Durrani

“I had lost some of my naivete and gained strength. These women with their pointless scheming could not contain me, and I watched the…

— Shan Sa

“I wanted none of it finally. And, deserving nothing better, I closed up like a spider in the flame of a match. And even…

— Anne Rice

“She is why purgatory was invented.”

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“Christine Blacklaw paled. She knew he was right. Loch Merse and its surrounding area was a terrible death trap, human beings the bait, the…

— Guy N. Smith

“It was a strange staging for death, for the woman on the high bed was dying. Slowly, fighting every inch of the way with…

— John Buchan

“Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive,…

— John Fowles

“I could not see the unholy creature, but I could feel the bone-aching chill of its presence, and I heard the howl of its…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling in the…

— Laura Gentile

“But hitherto she had been like some young captive brought up in a windowless palace whose painted walls she takes for the actual world.…

— Edith Wharton

“A woman never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought. They are not to be solved, or only in one way. If her…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He suggested devils, skulls, harsh masculine drawings. This thing was…heart poundingly good. She wanted to pluck it, and bury her face in it, and…

— Charlotte Stein

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh