Mervyn Peake
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VIRGINIA ALISON CASSANDRA CLARE J.K. ROWLING Yes, he had to admit to himself, he liked dating bookish girls who didn’t give him any trouble. An... SHARON HAMILTON He had the strength and the desire and the passion and all that sort of thing within his game. He al... JOHN ADSHEAD We've been waiting for him (Dotson). We knew he had it within himself -- we were just waiting for hi... DAN FINKLEY He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to ... JOSEPH ROTH JAMES T. FARRELL He had found the love of his life. She's a wonderful kid and was very special to him. JEFF FADNESS TRENTON LEE STEWART Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remem... JAMES CLAVELL But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carr... MADELINE CLAIRE FRANKLIN MAGIC JOHNSON He looked more comfortable out there. He played within himself and let the game come to him. I was r... BRETT GRAHAM It is a fool who seeks to build a monument for the greatest of his ancestors, for all he had to do w... NOLAN BANKS He was pretty impressive. He had a good fastball and curveball the first four innings. Then he found... BOB SCHAEFER This was a young man who had a very rough time growing up, but he never showed that, never complaine... EDWARD ROMERO It has been amazing to see how Trent has grown as a music artist, his lyrics have taken on a new mea... DOUG HOWARD H. L. MENCKEN HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It was only years later that he found out that the princess had been having an affair for months bef... PENNY JUNOR THOMM QUACKENBUSH [His opponents have recognized his potential from first-hand experience.] He was pretty impressive, ... BOB SCHAEFER STEVE ALLEN TOMMY LEE URSULA K. LE GUIN RALPH FIENNES He had his mind set for what he wanted. And he was going to get it no matter what, ... He went into ... JAMES BARBER He was not anything like what was portrayed to me by several people. ... What I found was a young ma... HUE JACKSON REGINA BRETT Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to ... ANNE HOLM CHARLIE CHAPLIN I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a litt... KYM WHITLEY DAN KENNEDY JULIAN BARNES Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had cons... FRED F. FIELDING JOHN CONNOLLY DEAN KOONTZ C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But... ROY L. PICKERING JR. We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the... PHILIP K. DICK HENRY JAMES PAUL BOWLES I got to know him better after his diagnosis, and the way he carried himself during that time said a... CHEYENNE TRUSSELL All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had ... JULIET MARILLIER AESOP During the treatment, we found out he owned a chicken coop and that some of his birds had died in re... RON KRUMER SUZANNE COLLINS HERMANN HESSE It was out of character for him to do this. He just kept saying that he had a surprise for us tomorr... CAROL COSTELLO Keith had it a little better than most kids here because he had two parents in the same household wh... JEFF HILL She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h... JULIET MARILLIER WILLIAM BARCLAY In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness SOROOSH SHAHRIVAR ERNEST HEMINGWAY STEVE CARELL Ten looked confounded that anyone would consider the world’s most slavishly adored hot beverage in... AMY ANDREWS, ROS BAXTER W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM MAGGIE STIEFVATER The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. MICHAEL SCHEUER RAINER MARIA RILKE We have no way of knowing how much drugs he consumed, just that he did. En route back, the victim go... JOSEPH CONTI ...Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had h... KIMBERLY GARDNER W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM GABRIELLE ZEVIN JOHN IRVING AESOP ARTHUR ASHE He was hidden there. We saw what a good senior season he had, and that he had a cannon for an arm, a... PAUL VOSBURGH PAUL AUSTER EDITH WHARTON STENDHAL DOUGLAS ADAMS J.K. ROWLING It looks like the suspect was upset that his wife had left him on Sunday. He knew she was having an ... CARRIE RODGERS PLUTARCH JOE ABERCROMBIE Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able ... ROBERT C. TUCKER HERMANN HESSE He tangibly had nothing, and he was up there thanking God for all that he had. There wasn't a dry ey... CAROL MOORE W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM J.R.R. TOLKIEN DAN BROWN (Judas) may have thought that when Jesus met with the priests, it would just be to talk. He had misj... GARY HERION
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Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had ... 
He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out abo... 
And not only of even mainly because of the protection it had given him - it was thanks to his own st... 
Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, h... 
He wasn’t a hero. He wasn’t the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost hims... 
Jubal paused, surprised at himself. He had intended to make the usual agnostic approach . . . and... 
He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’... 
The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as ... 
It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test fo... 
…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning spee... 
[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him de... 
He was sad because he had grown up, and because the years passed like a river that no man could stop... 
Nicholas looked down at his battered shoes and said nothing. He did indeed wish to be contrary—at ... 
When he found out he had Parkinson's, he showed such great courage by appearing in public no matter ... 
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries fo... 
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries fo... 
They wouldn’t have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once th... 
He had to have been a lonely guy. He gave up his whole life for his career, ... When he was on the r... 
They said he had a gun. No gun was ever found. 
This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer. 
Daniel had to put up with a lot from me. Here's a boy who's tied up with a man pushing his finger in... 
My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started... 
Rudolph Valentino had an air of sadness. He wore his success gracefully, appearing almost subdued by... 
That broke him up. That really bothered him. He felt he had to help. He was a good man. 
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insu... 
After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope... 
Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog... 
Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw... 
The Boy Hunting Locusts
A boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a... 
He struggled to get ahold of himself. This had to stop! He couldn't flip out every time he thought a... 
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him i... 
To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him t... 
Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to... 
I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was compl... 
They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... 
As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j... 
Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what... 
I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be. 
He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk e... 
I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I told him ... 
Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up... 
Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was read... 
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. 
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer... 
As the sun fell below the horizon, Sir Luckless emerged from the waters with the glory of his triump... 
He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first was th... 
Nothing had worked out the way he’d hoped. He should’ve expected it by now, maybe. After all, th... 
Frodo drew the Ring out of his pocket again and looked at it. It now appeared plain and smooth, with... 
He had been haunted his whole life by a mild
Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia. 
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screa... 
In great thick dusty books he read
Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- r...