Page 154 Quotes

“Her voice was a hushed whisper against my ear. An audible smile.”
― Richard E. Gropp, Bad Glass: A Novel

“I had met Hanna again on the benches as an old woman. She had looked like an old woman and smelled like an old woman. I hadn’t noticed her voice at all. Her voice had stayed young.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“Her eyes opened widely. There was a kind of innocent wonder in them that he took note of. He admired it, but he did not believe in it.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“Now that he would be leaving, she went directly to what must have been weighting her thoughts throughout the hour. “You were with the police this morning.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“He hadn’t thought before in terms of actual physical violence, only of facing up to the man, demanding the truth. He wasn’t a fighter; he’d never had to be and never wanted to be. As a student doctor he had seen the results of the cruelty of man when reduced to animal viciousness. In particular the cruelty unleashed in today’s juveniles, in the gang warfares of the city.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man