Adding to my book list

I saw this quote on a tumblr I follow and it really struck a chord with me. Makes me want to read the book.


‘My good woman, we can’t see you here without being alarmed for your safety. A stronger squall -‘
She turned to him - or as it seemed to Charles, through him. It was not so much what was positively in that face which remained with him after that first meeting, but all that was not as he had expected; for theirs was an age when the favoured feminine look was the demure, the obedient, the shy. Charles felt immediately as if he had trespassed; as if the Cobb belonged to that face, and not to the Ancient Borough of Lyme.


The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles