Hideout Quote by Walter Scott

“That she made a point to eat only the gristliest chicken bits, the burned biscuits, the mealiest potatoes, while she complained that his children…

— Paul Harding

“She felt as if she were imprisoned in a vault heaped with priceless treasures - an ever-growing hoard that threatened to crush the life…

— Michael Ende

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“She was a dedicated churchgoer, devoted do-gooder, and throbbing artery of village gossip. She sharpened her tongue on the loose lives of others and…

— Christina McKenna

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“She was quite a kindly woman. What she said at the last in the kitchen was quite true. ‘I didn’t want to kill anybody.’…

— Agatha Christie

“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every…

— Roald Dahl

“And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious…

— Joseph Conrad

“Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only on a…

— Alan Bradley

“What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?”

— Honoré de Balzac

“She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all…

— Hannah Hurnard

“Unsure about it, she allowed it to guide her down the stairs and back to the street, through the filthy town where she saw…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon