Darnell Prima

“I could almost believe that a love as passionate as theirs had been would enable them to reach across the abyss between life and death and join hands for some precious moments every night.”
― V.C. Andrews, Garden of Shadows

“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

“you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if she defies the rules of men and thinks she can make her own destiny. I am here not only to witness what happens to a heretic. I am here to witness what happens to a woman who thinks she knows more than men.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers