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She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... 
But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one h... 
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... 
She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt... 
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tr... 
She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all.
Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her... 
With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ... 
Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other h... 
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect w... 
A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own. 
Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai... 
He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, ... 
I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only c... 
Mine eyes
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;
Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my... 
No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... 
She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed t... 
When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, n... 
Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... 
Reyna set her dagger on the table. Percy had the vague feeling he’d seen her before. Her hair was ... 
Celaena stared at the dark, tilled earth, a chill wind rustling her veil.
He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months ... 
It was impossible to escape her. She provided no natural break in the conversation, and she spoke wi... 
Imogen looked at Ty, at the one man who could halt her stone-cold logic and make her just feel.... S... 
She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender ... 
there were moments throughout the whole day when she had to shake herself because she found her thou... 
She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, f... 
Being with her always felt like gazing the stars and into the infinity, reading a book which never e... 
Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting th... 
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
She closed her eyes and wished that the earth would swallow her up. 
My wife gets pampered pretty well. She's had me trained since she was pregnant, when I started m... 
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a v... 
Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just ... 
It had been her mercy, her refusal to kill a known enemy, that had made me realize the Order was wro... 
No one had hugged her like that since she had retired from the theater. 
O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here... 
She (Daisy) dug her nails into her palms and told herself she had no choice. "I, Theodosia..." She g... 
Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discover... 
As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time ... 
She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... 
It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and... 
What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ... 
She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure... 
She was dressed in white, and her tunic had amazing flared sleeves which trailed on the ground behin... 
She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times if she left him, harm would come to (... 
She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... 
I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows public... 
I had an uneventful few days," it told her. "The most exciting thing was an hour-long lecture from t... 
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. 
If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death... 
If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you m... 
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things... 
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small th... 
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice.... 
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. 
They didn't recognize me," I repeat.
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.