Murphy

“Looking at myself in the mirror, my face still ugly from the beating I'd taken from Bohlen, I couldn't figure what she saw in me. But a man's life is much in his own hands, and what I was did not have to be the measure of what I would be.”
― Louis L'Amour, Hanging Woman Creek

“Mahdokht turned pale. She did not know how to respond to this insult. What was this guy thinking ? Who did he think she was ? What did he really want ?”
― Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran

“With perfect twenty-twenty hindsight, when it was too late to really matter, she'd pin the discomfort down to the muted screams of instinct, that sixth sense of animal knowledge trying to tell her that her other senses were lying, that this was more than what it seemed.”
― Taylor Stevens, The Mask

“Their life is neither good nor bad. It just goes on.”
― Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran