Evil working in subtler fashion; marriages that proved to be no more then legalized slavery, and the careful manipulation of a bright and sensitive mind until its owner truly believed with all her heart in her own worthlessness. Betrayal, not once, but many times over.
Mercedes Lackey
Related There is nothing more inspiring than seeing a spider working her web, her craft, many times a day, w... SUNIL KHEMANEY Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to me... PAULO COELHO Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN They both had a broken heart, but she turned out to be cold hearted, he didn't lose hope because tha... DAVID BENTO GUERRA But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mothe... VERONICA ROTH Birgit was unique! Her voice, her artistry, her sense of humor and her friendship were in a class of... JAMES LEVINE I asked her if she believed you could ever truly understand another culture. I told her the longer I... LILY KING She's a star in her own right -- launched by the show -- but has proven herself on her own. She prov... BARRY JECKELL The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau... CHARLES DICKENS You knew what was on her mind and in her heart. She let you know. In the world we live in, where eve... BETTY ROLLIN I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing w... DAVID GEST I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tr... JHUMPA LAHIRI In the modern world, a girl plays usually with many boys’ heart every year before marriage and aft... ANUJ SOMANY Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betr... MARIO PUZO She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until sh... HARTLEY COLERIDGE As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo... FREDERICK WEISEL My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud ... DJUNA BARNES It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t... JANE AUSTEN Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience al... GORE VIDAL What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome vi... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be her... LEWIS CARROLL Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law g... LYSANDER SPOONER In her (Dunbar's) mind, once she gets that attitude that no one can stop her, she can play that well... COACH AMEN In her (Dunbar's) mind, once she gets that attitude that no one can stop her, she can play that well... COACH SCOTT AMEN He told her that every one of her enemies, all the masters and overseers of her suffering, would be ... COLSON WHITEHEAD She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to he... SARAH DESSEN Octavia was the only person in the world who truly knew him. There was no one else he really cared a... KASS MORGAN The heart always wins over the mind. The heart although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on... J.A. REDMERSKI No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... J.D. ROBB The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substanc... ALBERT CLAUDE Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all o... J.A. REDMERSKI She felt the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez strumming at her inner thighs lik... LAWREN LEO Death peeked around corners; it winked at her in the mirror then vanished; it hummed along with the ... BRANDY HEINEMAN She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until sh... HARTLEY COLERIDGE The walking/working Idea;Once an idea is released into the universe by declaration,it then becomes a... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of lov... C.S. LEWIS She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her b... GARTH STEIN Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like he... JANE AUSTEN She made many great sacrifices. To be in her presence once more is something that I would definitely... SEAN WASHINGTON She raised her head when she heard my step, and her gaze met my own, over the matron's dipping shoul... SARAH WATERS Something snapped," said Madeline. She saw Perry's hand shining back in its graceful, practiced arc.... LIANE MORIARTY I do not now begin,--I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again ... JOHANN VON GOETHE Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and somet... KRISTIN CASHORE Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow
Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;
Her e... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I never thought I’d ever leave Zerc. But after knowing Cricket, it occurred to me that I had no re... ASH GRAY What is this all about,' asked Sai, but her mouth couldn't address her ear in the tumult; her mind c... KIRAN DESAI The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her. JAMES DASHNER Love a woman, Not by her physical beauty And not the color of her skin, But love her what’s in her... ALON CALINAO DY He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fu... ANNE FORTIER I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, ... PHILIPPA GREGORY But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from... CHARITY SHEA Bekka treated her role has Frankenstein's bride more like an audition to be Brett's bride. Every par... LISI HARRISON Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Amer... JOHN QUINCY ADAMS The Heart always wins out over the mind, The heart, although reckless and suicidal and masochist all... J.A. REDMERSKI She is so bright and glorious that you cannot look at her face or her garments for the splendor with... HILDEGARD OF BINGEN Will,” she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache... CASSANDRA CLARE A woman's body is a sacred temple. A work of art, and a life-giving vessel. And once she becomes a m... SUZY KASSEM What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ... JERRY SPINELLI India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ... WILLIAM DALRYMPLE Then I looked right at Mama, for the first time in what seemed like forever, and she wasn't looking ... KATHERINE HANNIGAN Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy ro... FANNY KELLY Patty Flood and her good mood were starting to get on my nerves. Her mood was so good it was almost ... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h... CHIEF JOSEPH But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: / Then they shal... BIBLE Poor Matilda! She sleeps in the Grave, and her broken heart throbs no more with passion. MATTHEW LEWIS The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,... PAUL BOWLES Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye t... CHARLIE HUSTON Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. T... RICHELLE MEAD In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she ... BRAM STOKER Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered t... SHERWOOD ANDERSON No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid,... J.D. ROBB His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and ki... JOE HILL But yet she listen'd--'tis enough--
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart, be sure, is... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one�... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT She infested his mind, thoughts of worshipping her in dark ways, her laugh would be his reward, her ... V. THEIA I see her body as an arousing work of architecture. A sky-scraping building that I wouldn’t mind l... CARLTON MELLICK III I don't care if she ever makes a basket that can hold grain, but I want her to be here with me. I wa... SHAY SAVAGE But through the heart
Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,
'Tis then delightful misery no m... JAMES THOMSON (1) Working for minimum wage is like slavery but easier on the slave owner. JASON CASE This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the ... CARSON MCCULLERS I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l... J.D. SALINGER Alma had grown as tall as a man by now, with broad shoulders. ... This need not have necessarily pre... ELIZABETH GILBERT She can be in this community and hold her conscience, but the church has its rights to its own gover... STEPHEN TABER Erin not having raced on pavement a lot and not having raced traffic and things like that, we felt t... RAY EVERNHAM I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ul... GIANCARLO ESPOSITO Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but s... RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN 'Tis enough--
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart be sure is not of ice,
And o... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of th... VALENTINO GARAVANI betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation. BILL COSBY But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi... SUZANNE COLLINS
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