Espionage Quote by V.S. Carnes

“…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt…

— Paul Auster

“He was such an enigma, really - fierce and strong and weak and cruel. An incomparable friend and a son of a bitch. In…

— Paula McLain

“When he spoke, there was an odd vulnerability to his deep voice. As if he were letting her peek inside one of the dark…

— Lara Adrian

“He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be…

— Flannery O'Connor

“He wished he could communicate what he knew to this frightened boy. But that never did any good anyway. People learned by what they…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“No wonder he was so sweet and accommodating. His mother was like a damn fairy flittering around bringing goodness to the world in the…

— Kate Roth

“He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on…

— Helen Hodgman

“He had a trio of fears that sat in his gut like swallowed teeth, and when he was too quiet with his own thoughts,…

— Laini Taylor

“Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor.…

— William Styron

“He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.”

— Melina Marchetta

“His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made…

— Mervyn Peake

“He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered thoughts--a few…

— Henry James