Dining room Quote by Virginia Smith

“Carol, a swing-shift cocktail waitress in the Bird of Paradise's show lounge had gotten home (guesswork, here) around 2:15 - 2:30, poured herself a…

— Jeff Rice

“If Joanie dies before me, I wonder if I’ll ever be with another woman. I can’t imagine going through all of the preliminary stuff—the…

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

“The room continued to spin though she was standing still, but her ears were hot. She felt like she'd just slammed three doubles of…

— Michael R. Underwood

“She pushed open the door to the restaurant. More lunchtime bustle, mostly women in hats with their coats thrown over the backs of chairs,…

— Alice McDermott

“With your teacher, she said, playing with intimacy, and she was white and smooth. Not miserable and not knowing anything, not abandoned, not dirty-kneed…

— Clarice Lispector

“She stood by the fireplace talking, in that beautiful voice which made everything she said sound like a caress, to Papa, who had begun…

— Virginia Woolf

“That night, JoAnn didn't want to leave, but she knew she had to go. She understood, in that quiet hour, things that only people…

— Monica Holloway

“I served the counter while Sadie and Alice managed the floor. As soon as one seat emptied, someone else took the spot. After removing…

— Debbie Macomber

“Her face flamed and her breasts prickled. She did not think again of the sheriff or of his unmarried daughter. She thought instead of…

— Jennifer Roberson

“She shut the door and moved on to the floor-to-ceiling cabinets. “There is nothing here. Nothing. What do you eat?” “Ah…” Assail found himself…

— J. R. Ward

“Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because in spite…

— Justin Dobbs

“Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother's beer bottle. She figured that would be a good test for…

— Holly Black