Quote by Tom Robbins

“She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so…

— Ian McEwan

“This was most alarming, what sort of terrible toil had deranged the poor woman? Would I also have to work day and night till…

— Leonora Carrington

“I probably walked seven miles that night, mostly wondering why my wife went through the headache of changing the foyer tile when she planned…

— Abby Fabiaschi

“...the innocent seriousness with which she told her story and I'd listened to so often and myself told-- wide eyed hugging in heaven together--…

— Jack Kerouac

“Arabella was good at making life seem easy, except when she suddenly and dramatically wasn't.”

— John Lanchester

“She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that…

— Milan Kundera

“Her very worst picture, that, of people who live together rolling along, rolling along through the century and no matter how they try or…

— Anakana Schofield

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could…

— Tove Jansson

“The rest of us turned as one to stare at her, unable to comprehend how the murder of thousands of people could be overshadowed…

— David Bagby

“She was frightened because she was realizing – too late, too late – that what's done can't be undone, and what's remembered must somehow…

— Stephen King

“I don't know if any of this would have happened if we had been at home... Would we have crammed ourselves into the bathroom…

— Nina LaCour

“she decided to watch the leaves on the tree across the way. How many would fall off in such a strong wind? ... She…

— Julia Quinn