“Poor old Sheba regarded Connolly with much the same amazement and delight as you or I would a monkey who strolled out of the rain forest and asked for a gin and tonic.”
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
“There was something animated in his eyes, like pond life.”
― Birds of America: Stories
― Birds of America: Stories
“Her expression suggested the kind of deeply private, strictly incommunicable anguish of someone who has just slammed the car door on her thumb.”
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
“She kept coming back like a sleeper jolting against him in a railway carriage.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“Lonely people are terrible snobs about one another, I’ve found. They’re afraid that consorting with their own kind will compound their freakishness.”
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
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