“ What it had done, however, was to give him a feeling of power and control that had taken him back to how he used to feel every day. Val McDermid
“ Though I was having a blissful moment of being happy and content, I had one of those stray ideas you get at odd moments. I thought,How nice it would be if Eric were here with me in the car. He'd look… Charlaine Harris
“ The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome,… Ben Aaronovitch
“ That night the mosquitoes ate us up. I had bites all over my body. Back home I thought mosquitoes never bit black people. Not as much as they bit white people, anyway. Maybe Vietnamese mosquitoes just… Walter Dean Myers
“ Mr. Rohan, she heard Beatrix ask, are you going to marry my sister? Amelia choked on her tea and set the cup down. She sputtered and coughed into her napkin. Hush, Beatrix, Win murmured. But she’s wea… Lisa Kleypas
“ I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it. Anne Rice
“ It's tempting. I can see why those Ottomans hide their women. If I could, I might dress you in silk- deep-red silk- and put you away where no other man might see you.She turned her head to glare at hi… Elizabeth Hoyt
“ If some saw the Indians as living in prelapsarian innocence, there were others who judged them to be savage beasts, devils in the form of men. The discovery of cannibals in the Caribbean did nothing t… Paul Auster
“ I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. Jean-Paul Sartre
“ I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which m… Joseph Conrad
“ I love you so much, so incredibly much, he went on, and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm th… Cassandra Clare
“ I libri sono per me una casa. I libri non fanno una casa, una casa, nel senso che, così come apri una porta, apri un libro e ci entri. Jeanette Winterson
“ I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably a… Bret Easton Ellis
“ I asked the feedlot manager why they didn't just spray the liquefied manure on neighboring farms. The farmers don't want it, he explained. The nitrogen and phosphorus levels are so high that spraying… Michael Pollan
“ He took his mouth from hers and stared down at her with eyes so dark they no longer looked blue. Amanda, do you trust me? Of course not, she said. I don’t know the first thing about you. Laughter rust… Lisa Kleypas
“ He leaned over toward me, putting his fingers under my chin. He grazed my lips with his nose and then with his own lips, first gently, and then taking them into his mouth and biting them one at a time… Karen Essex
“ Grover: It’s a very sweet love story. I get misty-eyed every time I play it. So does Percy, but I think that’s because he’s laughing at me. Rick Riordan
“ Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone. Fannie Flagg
