Colleen McCullough · 189 pages
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“...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.”
― Colleen McCullough, quote from The Ladies of Missalonghi
“You just hang onto the thought that every dog has its day, even the bitches”
― Colleen McCullough, quote from The Ladies of Missalonghi
“Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That was the trouble with beds. They turned strangers into intimates more quickly than ten years of polite teas in parlours.”
― Colleen McCullough, quote from The Ladies of Missalonghi
“Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.”
― Colleen McCullough, quote from The Ladies of Missalonghi
“Ir iš tiesų netrukus tekančio vandens šniokštimas pamažu nustelbė visur aplinkui šlamančius medžius, tyliai kalbančius vieni su kitais alsia, gailia šneka, kokia ramiomis dienomis prabyla eukaliptai.”
― Colleen McCullough, quote from The Ladies of Missalonghi
“He hadn’t found what he’d meant to find, but his need to swipe and hoard something had been appeased for now.”
― Cherie Priest, quote from Boneshaker
“At some point he realized that he knew how
she felt—once you know how much you love someone, no one else would do.”
― Robyn Carr, quote from Virgin River
“I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny.
I'm not who you think I am, I had said to T.J. the last time I'd seen him. Maybe I wasn't who I'd thought I was either.”
― Aimee Friedman, quote from Sea Change
“We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, just in case I haven't mentioned it before, the pride of my office wall is my framed high-school graduation certificate, lit from above. Miriam has reproached me for it. "Take it down, darling," she once pleaded. But it still hangs there.”
― Mordecai Richler, quote from Barney's Version
“As usual, when she has her Kindle in her hand, the world could crumble around her and she wouldn't have a clue.”
― Aurora Rose Reynolds, quote from Until Trevor
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