She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and free.
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Related The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in h... JODI PICOULT Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... KURT VONNEGUT I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a be... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to f... JULIA HOBAN How did I love her? Let me count the ways. The freckles on her nose like the shadow of a s... LAUREN OLIVER Well, here were the ugly facts. She had no mad-ninja-skillz to rely on and her family didn’t know ... DANIELLE MONSCH In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi... LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the... LAO SHE She felt she was ready to go. Her caregiver, she told her she loved her and said to tell everyone el... JAMES ROGERS she decided no human man would ever touch her again. the doors to her body and heart were already lo... DIANNE SYLVAN She painted it unlike any of her colleagues. When you see an O'Keeffe you know it's an O'Keeffe and ... DAN PIERSOL I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her... AYN RAND No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and ... JACQUIE SMALL Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh... MARIE RUTKOSKI Nobody thought it could be done, so nobody had tried before. Standing with one foot in the abyss and... FORREST CURRAN The doctor told her she could keep coaching if she could tone it down on the sidelines. Anyone her k... KYLEE KEROHER We talked about it and I told her she is here to get through school. I told her I would take her any... BILL HANDER She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... CASSANDRA CLARE You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi... CASSANDRA CLARE Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing. Kids had yelled at her. Demand... MICHAEL GRANT She told about how the chaplain came to tell her that her husband had died and all the trauma that s... JOE DOHERTY They told her she would be freed if she made the video. She was also told they had killed another Am... ELLEN TUTTLE I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. The... CONFUCIUS She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing... IAN MCEWAN Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the... ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE Once Doc got an idea in her head that she was going to do something, you didn't stop her. She had th... ED HARRIS In one case, I was working with a woman who told me initially that she was recommending me to all he... KATHERINE CROWLEY There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made m... IRIS MURDOCH It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, an... JAMES A. MICHENER Those free throws were huge, because she stepped up after she had a rough game with some traveling a... BILL RESLER Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She... LATIKA TEOTIA I told her (Kindred) in the locker room 'outstanding minutes', just real steady. She rebounded. She ... DEBRA CLARK Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit... PHILIPPA GREGORY She had made her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most pa... SARAH DESSEN She knew he’d be back. No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw... ARUNDHATI ROY there’s an eager flame, spreading like wildfire, that has existed inside of her for as long as she... CHEZIA She told me she wanted to get to know him better before she made any commitments. ENRIQUE SALAS Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... CASSANDRA CLARE Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for he... GASTON LEROUX But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... ANN PATCHETT Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH The months passed away. Slowly a great fear came over Viola, a fear that would hardly ever leave her... BARRY PAIN And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much... EMILY MAGUIRE She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... ALICE MUNRO Country music was her real love, but she thought she could connect better with teens if she put it t... HEATHER DUNCAN You know this girl. Her hair is neither long nor short nor light nor dark. She parts it precise... GABRIELLE ZEVIN She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, ye... JERRY SPINELLI From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leavin... PETER S. BEAGLE She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was ... ELIZABETH HARDWICK She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which ... AYN RAND She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the Universe ARIANA DANCU She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymo... ALICE SEBOLD Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i... GREGORY MAGUIRE (She) told me that her car had broken down three and a half blocks down. She really needed help. Cou... DENISE KRAFT The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, he... PHILLIP NOYCE It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment he... THRITY UMRIGAR She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN Her instructions were to stay back and when people started to falter, she made her move. Once she wa... RALPH WHITE She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... KEN FOLLETT Usually if she didn't see this one employee she would leave ranting and raving. I could see her maki... CARLOS MONTOYA Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... DANIELLE STEEL I had asked her about it when she was here. She [said], 'Oh, I don't know,' and I said, 'Well, keep ... CHANITA OLDS was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great musi... STEPHEN CHBOSKY She was outgoing and fascinating to watch, and I wish that I could be like her, but no one ever will... FELICIA LONDRE And in that unlikely moment, as she held his dagger poised high, ready to strike, Royce Westmoreland... JUDITH MCNAUGHT She lived alone there, and that is what I think had made her so vulnerable. She was like the rest of... LINDA SHULTZ She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind o... ROMAN PAYNE She couldn’t walk away from him again. Her heart couldn’t take it and she didn’t think his cou... KATIE REUS She was very smart, a really sharp kid -- she could have done anything she put her mind to. We calle... CONNIE KYRIACOU His body was urgent against her, and she didn't have the heart anymore to fight...She saw his eyes, ... D.H. LAWRENCE There was so much tree gum in her hair from where he dragged her through the woods. She told me she ... LARONDA BULLARD I don't know if that's actually the case, but it makes her feel better to say that. At least she sti... JEANNIE GALINDO Her serenity journal was in her purse and she rummaged through until she found it. On the front page... SADEQA JOHNSON Annie, who up until this very day had always felt like a child--which is why she could not marry, sh... ELIZABETH STROUT ..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her br... ZORA NEALE HURSTON They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all t... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN She knew she could do better and that we needed her to do better. She was frustrated, but at the sam... HEATHER STEPHENS Just being around her made me feel better. She had an amber shade aura to her that filled any cracks... HUBERT MARTIN She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE But then she remembered something else, just a flash: looking up at Damon’s face in the woods and ... L.J. SMITH Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strang... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She's such a ballsy broad because she really doesn't know any better. She has no fear, and you never... JAIME PRESSLY She chose to turn her uniform in, and she walked away. BRENDA BECKWITH She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia..." She g... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view... AYN RAND What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... ALICE MUNRO She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her. It had... MARIE RUTKOSKI Margaret told me once that she still had the picture I drew over 20 years ago and that it was hangin... JODI RUCINSKI She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the par... DUDLEY CLENDINEN She was very good as a freshman, and then the latter part of her career her golf took a turn for the... DAN BROOKS He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everythin... CELESTE NG She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent h... ARUNDHATI ROY She started off really quiet and we all yelled at her for it. We told her she had to speak up more a... LEAH MAXWELL She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. ... JODI PICOULT She was dressed in Indian muslin, and beneath it she only wore a chemise of fine cambric, and by the... JACQUES CASANOVA He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting r... JENNIFER E. SMITH When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She sto... ANN BRASHARES This was all her own idea. She woke up Saturday morning and she had had lemonade stands before. ... ... CHRISTINE KING
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PATRICK ROTHFUSS Las palabras no siempre pueden hacer el trabajo para el que las necesitamos. La música existe para ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Es el vicio de mirar atrás. Puedes pasarte la vida mirando hacia atrás, pero no sirve de nada PATRICK ROTHFUSS A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all. PATRICK ROTHFUSS I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standar... PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penn... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Metal rusts, music lasts forever. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Sólo los sacerdotes y los locos no tienen miedo a nada, y yo nunca me he llevado muy bien con Dios PATRICK ROTHFUSS If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it. PATRICK ROTHFUSS She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. M... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. M... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Only a fool worries over what he can’t control. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-lost in ledger all hope forgotten. Yet fa... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and de... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger un... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally c... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language th... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. PATRICK ROTHFUSS You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked. PATRICK ROTHFUSS How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave i... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment. PATRICK ROTHFUSS You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinite... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. PATRICK ROTHFUSS A poet is a musician who can't sing. PATRICK ROTHFUSS The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d lik... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. Th... PATRICK ROTHFUSS For all that she lacked your fire. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Upon him I will visit famine and a fire, Till all around him desolation rings And all the ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll ha... PATRICK ROTHFUSS That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink. PATRICK ROTHFUSS There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you wan... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exact... PATRICK ROTHFUSS in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, th... PATRICK ROTHFUSS If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you... PATRICK ROTHFUSS But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'With... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile.... PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous". PATRICK ROTHFUSS Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly PATRICK ROTHFUSS Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game? PATRICK ROTHFUSS Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do. PATRICK ROTHFUSS She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It´s one thing to enjoy a story, but it´s quite another to take it for the truth. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I guess I'm doomed to die loveless. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's no... PATRICK ROTHFUSS She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?' 'Lucky?... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere. PATRICK ROTHFUSS I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I summoned demons. I ate the entire little chee... 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