Literary Quotes

She became naturally and inevitably the center of the group. So, you felt, it would always be.

'These people have an uncanny gift for saying just the most awful things they can . . . '

' . . . I can put up with vulgarity, but I can't stand meanness!'

' . . . what I've gone through nobody knows.'

'I could bear it no longer, you understand. Tonight—tonight I was going to kill myself . . . '

'But there is a worse hell than that, the hell I have lived in with you. I have seen your doubt—your fear of me—poisoning all our love.'

She moved now like a woman in a happy dream.

This was Mr. Quin's doing. It was he who was staging the play—was giving the actors their cues. He was at the heart of the mystery pulling the strings, making the puppets work. He knew everything . . .