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She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her head (Was Quotes)
The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too (Was Quotes)
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself (Was Quotes)
She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal (Was Quotes)
Thirty-six years old and this was the first time anybody ever said he'd done it right. Fog against the window like milk (Was Quotes)
And, in the warm silence, in the peaceful solitude of the study, Clotilde smiled down at the baby who was still sucking - his little arm in the air, pointing upwards, a symbol of hope and life (Was Quotes)
The devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle name was X. Face like cottage cheese clawed with a fork (Was Quotes)
He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins (Was Quotes)
I was a hundred percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects (Was Quotes)
The stench of the manure that Jean was turning had cheered him up a little. He adored its promise of fertility and was sniffing it with the relish of a man smelling a randy woman (Was Quotes)
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost (Was Quotes)
She [Sidonie Rougon] never spoke of her husband, nor of her childhood, her family, or her personal concerns. There was only one thing she never sold, and that was herself (Was Quotes)
He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes (Was Quotes)
If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie (Was Quotes)
When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order (Was Quotes)
This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new Thomas Jefferson. Well let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor... You're no Thomas Jefferson! (Was Quotes)
She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself? (Was Quotes)
While the storm was erupting, she stayed, staring at it, watching the shafts of lightning, like someone who could see serious things, far away in the future in these sudden flashes of light (Was Quotes)
It was in that garage that Alec worked, no longer wearing red bodices or peeing blue, but doing mysterious greasy things (Was Quotes)
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled (Was Quotes)
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over (Was Quotes)
The thing was to wear a bathing suit and look good in it, to somehow make yourself worthy of the scenario you were volunteering for (Was Quotes)
I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again (Was Quotes)
Because, really, what was worse than lying wide awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another? (Was Quotes)
Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck (Was Quotes)
Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do (Was Quotes)
Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on Earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause (Was Quotes)
What a beautiful bird, they kept telling one another, which was a weird thing to say about a dead thing without a head (Was Quotes)
Ever since the development of the spine, the individual had become paramount, the group disregarded. Ghiselle was only following the downhill path of her species (Was Quotes)
It was a good day for a parade, sunny and unseasonably warm, the sky a Sunday school cartoon of heaven (Was Quotes)