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Herring Quotes (page 11)

Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "Her affection for everything she could love increased."
Her affection for everything she could love increased. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Anya Seton quote: "Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame."
Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame. Anya Seton
Peter S. Beagle quote: "Her voice left a flavour of honey and gunpowder on the air."
Her voice left a flavour of honey and gunpowder on the air. Peter S. Beagle
Isaac Babel quote: "Her sponge cakes had the aroma of crucifixion. Within them was..."
Her sponge cakes had the aroma of crucifixion. Within them was the sap of slyness and the fragrant frenzy of the Vatican. Isaac Babel
Her Triumph. I did the dragon's will until you came. Because I had fancied love a casual. Improvisation, or a settled game. That followed if I let the kerchief fall: Those deeds were best that gave the minute wings. And heavenly music if they gave it wit; And then you stood among the dragon-rings. I mocked, being crazy, but you mastered it. And broke the chain and set my ankles free, Saint George or else a pagan Perseus; And now we stare astonished at the sea, And a miraculous strange bird... William Butler Yeats
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion. Antonia Fraser
C. S. Lewis quote: "Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. C. S. Lewis
Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he frequently found on the floor when he lived boyishly close to the carpet. John Updike
Her husband had archaic ideas about jewels; a man bought them for his wife in acknowledgement of things he could not gracefully utter. Willa Cather
Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night. Leo Tolstoy
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling. Jane Austen
Terry Prachett quote: "Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much..."
Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped. Terry Prachett
George R. R. Martin quote: "Her name's Brienne."
Her name's Brienne. George R. R. Martin
Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the opposite: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as "mushy. Alain de Botton
Armistead Maupin quote: "Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and..."
Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments. Armistead Maupin

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