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ROALD DAHL Desire had never done anything good in her life, so she had divorced it years ago.
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But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view...
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HAN KANG![]()
I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America....
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She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
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She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.
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They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM![]()
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
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What was this power, this insidious threat, this invisible gun to her head that controlled her life ...
FANNIE FLAGG My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"...
ROALD DAHL You chose books. I chose looks.
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ASH GRAY![]()
So what if she wasn’t a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn’t wear her heart on he...
SARA SHERIDAN She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
JANET FLANNER He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fu...
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she had seen a good many films; this education...
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She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She u...
EDITH WHARTON![]()
Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, sh...
KURT VONNEGUT![]()
A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady...
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She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ...
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Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu...
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BIBLE![]()
Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, an...
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Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do...
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As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had n...
PAULO COELHO She just enjoyed her son more than anything in life. She never had any regrets, ever.
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The poor wretch, she had given up so much and could yet smile at her trouble. He himself had never s...
A.E. COPPARD how he had done so she never
ROBERT GODDARD![]()
To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman.
And I had done many of t...
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Being with her always felt like gazing the stars and into the infinity, reading a book which never e...
AKSHAY VASU Unlike some not so gracious winners in the past, she never had an enemies list. She never held it ag...
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And the child, Francie Nolan, was of all the Rommelys and all the Nolans. She had the violent weakne...
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Lady #1, Maki, had never once given any thought to what was really right for her in her life, simply...
RYū MURAKAMI What troubled people especially was not just the tragedy--or even the needlessness--but the element ...
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And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly...
ALAN BENNETT![]()
Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES![]()
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kiss...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
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She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out ther...
LEV GROSSMAN![]()
in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that s...
NICHOLAS SPARKS They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how muc...
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It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but...
NEIL GAIMAN She looked like she had been beaten up, bruised. She had bruises all over her face, her tongue had b...
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My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started...
REGINA BRETT Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid fo...
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN They were not her children, she had no idea who they were, but they had attached to her, and she had...
BIANCA WALKER She was actively involved from the first days of the child's life, bathing her, feeding her, caring ...
JANET JENKINS She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first pla...
LESLYE WALTON She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left...
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She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she ...
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And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusation...
AMY TAN Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had...
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My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it...
RUTH REICHL I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ...
DAVID BLAINE All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the l...
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She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, tha...
SARAH WATERS She culminated her career at the end. She just did what she had always done.
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They never had a better computer. They never had better lights. They never had better communication ...
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She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever ...
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Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always...
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Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai...
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Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,...
DANIELLE STEEL![]()
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
Th...
MELINA MARCHETTA![]()
She has the most bizarre and beautiful soul I had ever seen. Her eyes shined always like a�...
AKSHAY VASU The little queen’s mother and father had said that she would live on, for a long time, and that he...
MEIA GEDDES![]()
Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN![]()
If my daughter had been in her right mind, she would never, ever have taken the kids with her that d...
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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic...
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JENNIFER MCMAHON![]()
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DON ROFF I asked her how much she had to drink, and she replied that she had a couple of beers.
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Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consiste...
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She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular p...
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There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing an...
ANN BRASHARES![]()
She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.
D.H. LAWRENCE
ROALD DAHL Desire had never done anything good in her life, so she had divorced it years ago.
TALENA WINTERS
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view... AYN RAND One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She...
HAN KANG
I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America.... JOANNA LUMLEY
She had her addictions and one of them was reading. JEANNETTE WALLS A ray of light made a rainbow through the mist. [His] words had given her a small glimmer of hope �...
RACHEL SKATVOLD Kat had already seen the amazing things God had done on her adventure so far, and she could hardly w...
MONA HODGSON
She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her. W.P. KINSELLA
They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her. ZORA NEALE HURSTON
What was this power, this insidious threat, this invisible gun to her head that controlled her life ... FANNIE FLAGG My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"...
ROALD DAHL You chose books. I chose looks.
ROALD DAHL I never thought I’d ever leave Zerc. But after knowing Cricket, it occurred to me that I had no re...
ASH GRAY
So what if she wasn’t a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn’t wear her heart on he... SARA SHERIDAN She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.
JANET FLANNER He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fu...
ANNE FORTIER The young woman had read a good many novels, and
she had seen a good many films; this education...
MAURICE RENARD
My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas ... SOPHIE KINSELLA She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he...
BERNARDO BATIZ Mrs. Jones had received a lot of injuries to her body, all over her body. She had over 60 wounds. Th...
JOE WARD
She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She u... EDITH WHARTON
Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, sh... KURT VONNEGUT
A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady... KAGE BAKER
She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... KEN FOLLETT
He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them... CHARLES DICKENS The weather had changed, all right. Gatlin had never seen a storm like this. And she probably didn't...
KAMI GARCIA; MARGARET STOHL And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
BIBLE We don't think Anna Nicole Smith will ever see any money. If Anna Nicole Smith had taken the six mil...
DAVID MARGULIES She didn’t want to keep talking about him as if everything was okay. Worst of all, she hated sorti...
ANAIS TORRES
Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the qu... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. The...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON
He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, ... ANAïS NIN She had that courage and that heart. She was never selfish, and this is another example of it. She g...
BEATRIZ LOPEZ Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the LORD, and that he had spoken these ...
BIBLE
Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, an... KAREN MARIE MONING
Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons... JANE AUSTEN
Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do... THOMAS HARDY
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the... CORNELIA FUNKE
As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had n... PAULO COELHO She just enjoyed her son more than anything in life. She never had any regrets, ever.
KATHY BENNETT
The poor wretch, she had given up so much and could yet smile at her trouble. He himself had never s... A.E. COPPARD how he had done so she never
ROBERT GODDARD
To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of t...
JOHN GREEN
Being with her always felt like gazing the stars and into the infinity, reading a book which never e... AKSHAY VASU Unlike some not so gracious winners in the past, she never had an enemies list. She never held it ag...
CYNTHIA STEAD
And the child, Francie Nolan, was of all the Rommelys and all the Nolans. She had the violent weakne... BETTY SMITH
Lady #1, Maki, had never once given any thought to what was really right for her in her life, simply... RYū MURAKAMI What troubled people especially was not just the tragedy--or even the needlessness--but the element ...
WALTER LORD
And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly... ALAN BENNETT
Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she... JEFFREY EUGENIDES
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kiss... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out ther... LEV GROSSMAN
in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that s... NICHOLAS SPARKS They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how muc...
KATHLEEN WINSOR
It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but... NEIL GAIMAN She looked like she had been beaten up, bruised. She had bruises all over her face, her tongue had b...
BERNADETTE MCELROY
My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started... REGINA BRETT Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid fo...
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN They were not her children, she had no idea who they were, but they had attached to her, and she had...
BIANCA WALKER She was actively involved from the first days of the child's life, bathing her, feeding her, caring ...
JANET JENKINS She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first pla...
LESLYE WALTON She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left...
ANITA GATTIS He acknowledges that he had received what [a campaign member] had sent, but he didn't think it was s...
CAROL WOOD
She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she ... JOHANNA LINDSEY
And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusation... AMY TAN Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had...
PIP KARMEL
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ...
DAVID BLAINE All the barriers were gone. I had unwound the string she had given me, and found my way out of the l...
DANIEL KEYES
She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, tha... SARAH WATERS She culminated her career at the end. She just did what she had always done.
DAN MESSMANN
They never had a better computer. They never had better lights. They never had better communication ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH in all the years i had blundered along in search of my own footing, she had never given me an inklin...
GAIL CALDWELL
She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever ... RICHARD YATES
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always... PAULO COELHO She started out with the way Nellie started her life. Missouri is where she grew up. She had a hard ...
BETH MILLER
Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai... CASSANDRA CLARE
Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... DANIELLE STEEL
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.Th...
MELINA MARCHETTA
She has the most bizarre and beautiful soul I had ever seen. Her eyes shined always like a�... AKSHAY VASU The little queen’s mother and father had said that she would live on, for a long time, and that he...
MEIA GEDDES
Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
If my daughter had been in her right mind, she would never, ever have taken the kids with her that d... CHUCK JONES
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdnes...
DEAN JACKSON She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remem...
MAHITA VAS What exactly is it you'd like to know? [the book store manager asked]. He had an odd expression, lik...
JENNIFER MCMAHON
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ... DON ROFF I asked her how much she had to drink, and she replied that she had a couple of beers.
BILL KELLY
Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consiste... GENA SHOWALTER We didn't have an answer for her. She was the heart and soul of their team. They never felt out of a...
DANNY BAKER
She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular p... PAULO COELHO
There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing an...
ANN BRASHARES
She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her. D.H. LAWRENCE
