Culture shock Quote by Zoë S. Roy

“It was quite settled by now. She was born to be a spinster.”

— Laura Kinsale

“There were so many beautiful women here. I got the sense that a few of these girls had been on dates before and, perhaps…

— Kiera Cass

“Their laughter seemed to have turned into low whispering now. It never ceases to amaze me, the things they find interesting, amusing or unusual.…

— Gail Honeyman

“It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“How had I fetched up into this strange new life, where drunk foreigners shouted around me in the night, and all my clothes were…

— Donna Tartt

“I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor…

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

“Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the yarn twisted…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She remembered a story she had once heard: a woman had gossiped about her neighbors and later regretted what she said. She went to…

— Tova Mirvis

“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person…

— Jerry Spinelli

“Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh.…

— Mercedes Lackey