Zahra Ali

“Mr. Snagsby, as a timid man, is accustomed to cough with a variety of expressions, and so to save words.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“The feeling that you want to own someone body and soul, spirit them away from everyone else, have them all to yourself forever and ever and ever,” Hugo said dreamily. “It’s called love.”
“No, it’s called kidnapping,” said Tavi.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister