Keepers Quote by Virginia Woolf

[She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion…

— Virginia Woolf

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships…pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“She hears the word bell, or orchard, or swallow, and she experiences a strange surprise, like the feel of a coin in the soil.…

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

“Her glittering nails and dangling earrings made her seem fragile sometimes, like something delicate, but then I'd find her standing alone on the roof…

— Amanda Sun

A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in…

— Charles Dickens

“She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had…

— Richard Brautigan

“But she knew it wasn’t. In her hand lay a coin-size gold amulet on a delicate chain. She fought against the urge to scream.…

— Sarah J. Maas

“She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments.…

— Joseph Conrad

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I…

— Raymond Chandler

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of…

— Carol Shields

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

“The sound of her voice, and this acknowledgment of obligation, made him less willing to go than before, but at length he tore himself…

— Ann Radcliffe