Page 47 Quotes

“I had seen her crying. The Hanna who could cry was closer to me than the Hanna who was only strong.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“I felt slightly bewildered and as though I had missed something essential in the conversation.”
― Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger

“I was relieved to notice no signs of anger or accusation.”
― Agatha Christie, The Moving Finger

“Though he had known Roo for nearly three months at this point, Fred was still intoxicated with her—and not only sexually. As if she had been some mind-expanding drug, he was in a constant state of heightened awareness: what he saw seemed both strange and amazingly familiar.”
― Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs

“The girls were approaching, the flutter of their voices preceding them. Hugh was surprised at himself; he awaited with the nervous excitement a boy was supposed to have only on his first date.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the books she took out of the municipal library, and above all, the novels.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being