Marie Rutkoski
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DICK She was looking for something that she really wanted to do. Something that made her happy. And this ... KATE JACKSON GASTON LEROUX JULIE BURCHILL I am really pleased with Corey's performance. She did what she needed to do to get ready for next we... JEFF SHAFFER LATIKA TEOTIA GEORGE R.R. MARTIN RENEE AHDIEH She knew she could do better and that we needed her to do better. She was frustrated, but at the sam... HEATHER STEPHENS Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilis... SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH It pained her that a few hundred words in an also-ran newspaper could get her kicked out. That damne... RICHARD CASTLE Makosi is an adult who, like any other, should be allowed to make her own decisions as she did when ... MAKOSI MUSAMBASI LIANE MORIARTY CARSON MCCULLERS I knew she had the ability. What is commendable on her part was that she did everything -- she broug... KRISTEN PETERSON She lived alone there, and that is what I think had made her so vulnerable. She was like the rest of... LINDA SHULTZ Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed... ELIZABETH STROUT ALICE MUNRO JALEIGH JOHNSON She was an incredible basketball player, but her truest gifts were her personality and love for the ... JOAN BONVICINI She was disoriented. She was out and had to be helped to her corner, despite the fact that she was s... MAUREEN SHEA My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tong... COLLEEN MCCARTY It was tough knowing that your mom could be down there miles under the ground and something bad coul... JULIUS JONES If she needs a nap, I could just hang out and wait for her to wake up right? I could like down near ... CHRISTINA LAUREN Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She ... ANN BRASHARES Ashley had two really big wins to close out the tournament strong. Her play was definitely the highl... COLETTE QUAM The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She... HAN KANG I was concerned that she would be interested in the job so that she could work out her own demons. LINDA RICHARDS PATRICK ROTHFUSS MARY BALOGH I kind of got on Katie. The whole thing was mental, but it all came together for her this weekend. T... LISA SCHRIVER DANIELLE STEEL But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love.PETER CAREY JODI PICOULT CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE JERRY SPINELLI AYN RAND When I saw her jumping so well I was cheering her on, too. Back in the village, I told her if she ke... SANYA RICHARDS I had a feeling she probably made friends with people pretty easily, and that could be a good thing ... JESSI KIRBY Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the... ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE EDGAR ALLAN POE She smiled and he abruptly looked away. Was it really necessary for her to smile? It was bad enough ... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - THE JOURNAL Unconscious. Mary Pat wanted to win this game so bad, it was written all over her face. Every inning... LAURIE MARKATOS HENRY JAMES She could do this. She was stronger now. This was her chance to prove it. TALENA WINTERS NEAL SHUSTERMAN He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and ki... JOE HILL She was very smart, a really sharp kid -- she could have done anything she put her mind to. We calle... CONNIE KYRIACOU SARAH J. MAAS GUSTAVE FLAUBERT That little girl is a warrior, ... 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CHERYL STRAYED ANNA GODBERSEN PATRICK ROTHFUSS JODI PICOULT HELEN OYEYEMI BETTY SMITH It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardl... JEANNE PYLE I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a be... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN MICHAEL ONDAATJE My sister was an amazing woman who had made decisions her entire life, and she deserved to make this... JOELLYN SCHULTZ Laura could win a point with a passing shot or she could volley her way to a point. She is a skilled... DICK PIRETTI MICHAEL GRANT HENRY JAMES Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve’s innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence le... ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of gre... MARIE RUTKOSKI Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recen... MARIE RUTKOSKI Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time."MARIE RUTKOSKI Will you come with me?"MARIE RUTKOSKI Some days are just born bad. You know the type. The kind you want to sweep into your palm like spill... MARIE RUTKOSKI Arin took the basket from her. "Coming or going?"MARIE RUTKOSKI A lover? Maybe. Something tender, anyway. But tender like a bruise. MARIE RUTKOSKI Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, pru... MARIE RUTKOSKI Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ... MARIE RUTKOSKI Isn't that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real? MARIE RUTKOSKI Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say th... MARIE RUTKOSKI Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh... MARIE RUTKOSKI Something tugged inside him. A flutter of unease.MARIE RUTKOSKI She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her. MARIE RUTKOSKI Someone was coming through the velvet.MARIE RUTKOSKI An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing a... MARIE RUTKOSKI She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her... MARIE RUTKOSKI She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake... MARIE RUTKOSKI She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have d... MARIE RUTKOSKI There is a difference between you and me. If I die, you'll survive. If you die, it will destr... MARIE RUTKOSKI Arin smiled. 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MARIE CORELLI MARIE KONDO MARIE CURIE MARIE ANTOINETTE MARIE LU MARIE CURIE MARIE KONDO MARIE KONDO MARIE WINDSOR MARIE ANTOINETTE MARIE KONDO MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU MARIE LU The problem with loving is that pets don't last long enough and people last too long. MARIE CORELLI MARIE LU MARIE CURIE MARIE CURIE MARIE LENERU MARIE CURIE MARIE HELVIN At one point in the 'Onyx Court' series, I think during 'In Ashes Lie', I suggested ... MARIE BRENNAN MARIE ANTOINETTE MARIE HELVIN TEENA MARIE MARIE ANTOINETTE
She had made her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most pa... 
She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... 
Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a ... 
Rachel could not believe what she was hearing. Accepting that her magic worked was a huge step, yet ... 
How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for w... 
Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... 
She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing... 
Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit... 
Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... 
It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice... 
Why should I blame her that she filled my days
Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for he... 
What Mrs. Thatcher did for women was to demonstrate that if a woman had enough desire she could do w... 
Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She... 
The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'I... 
Her own awareness had risen like the dawn on her back.Like a leaden sunrise veiled in a swirl of sto... 
Toxic' was actually an accurate description of the feelings Clementine had so often felt in Erika's ... 
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to s... 
What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... 
She wanted to make sure she studied all the manuals thoroughly, but she had to admit that part of he... 
I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing... 
Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been with... 
Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... 
She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someon... 
She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not ... 
What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ... 
She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her... 
I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and,... 
...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any... 
If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have bel... 
Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, sh... 
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... 
Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great,... 
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learn... 
Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a... 
Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 
The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember ... 
What was this power, this insidious threat, this invisible gun to her head that controlled her life ... 
Pedersen was always wooing her. Sometimes he was gracious and kind, but at other times when his fail... 
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view... 
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... 
But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... 
Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and... 
She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved t... 
The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in h... 
He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mi... 
She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... 
Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing.
The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with ... 
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... 
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. 
It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;... 
Smiling makes you and others feel better, and it makes you look younger. 
I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results wer... 
The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with whic... 
On the one hand, I'm so relieved that I've actually managed to finish my very first series a... 
Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love ... 
I definitely think men prefer women more undone and natural than butch and masculine. They prefer a ... 
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh abo... 
To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very dif... 
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few thi... 
It is not how old you are, but how you are old. 
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. 
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. 
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. 
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir... 
My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy... 
Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stell... 
It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I tha... 
As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you. 
Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure ... 
Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology? 
What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion? 
All in all, it's been a wonderful, wonderful ride. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. 
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. 
Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about th... 
There's no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. You can lea... 
I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I ... 