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Related Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometim... STIEG LARSSON He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other p... VICTORIA SCHWAB Victor wondered about lots of things. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, ... VICTORIA SCHWAB All the same, Thomas now had a plan. As bad as it was, he had a plan. They needed more clues ab... JAMES DASHNER People were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done,... VICTORIA SCHWAB The land was ours before we were the lands.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Bef... ROBERT FROST For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. ... BETTY SMITH THIS IS WHY He will never be given to wonder much if he was the mouth for some cruel... MICHAEL RYAN Poirot's eyes opened. "That is great ferocity," he said. "It is a woman," said the chef d... AGATHA CHRISTIE If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addict... BRIAN MOLKO I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stie... DAVID LAGERCRANTZ Last was man. One by one God judged them all; Those who were his He saved for his pleasure, Th... JONAS PEREZ Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, yo... JANE AUSTEN This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Today was the introduction, and introductions were important. The girl had to meet the boy in an equ... F.D. LEE You could lose the ones you loved in the blink of an eye—and he was willing to bet, when it happen... J.R. WARD The day I became a writer it wasn't the day a whore paid me in sex in exchange for one of ... DAVE MATTHES Whether she was engaged, married or single, nothing could or ever would come of the weakness he was ... ROBERT GALBRAITH Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed. ROBERT FROST I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be ... KAREN HAWKINS OK, now let’s have some fun. Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about women. Freud said he didn�... KURT VONNEGUT He fell to the seat, she by his side. There were no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. H... VICTOR HUGO I knew in advance what they were going to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that ... CHARLES PICKERING He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whethe... DOUGLAS ADAMS In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he... AYN RAND Will rose slowly to his feet. He could not believe he was doing what he was doing, but it was clear ... CASSANDRA CLARE They waited for the elevator. " Most people love butterflies and hate moth," he said. "But moths are... THOMAS HARRIS Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they for... ROBYN DONALD I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as Phèdre and Joscelin, I'd be able to predic... JACQUELINE CAREY [Stieg] was describing Sweden the way it was and the way he saw the country: the scandals, the oppre... EVA GABRIELSSON The connection he felt with her at that moment was mind-boggling. "No regrets," he whispered. <... ELIZABETH REYES The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make... LEWIS CARROLL We stood there for a minute or two, with John swaying gently against my arm. 'I'm feeling better,' h... GEORGE MARTIN He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for b... SUZANNE COLLINS I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people be... KURT VONNEGUT JR. He was right. I knew the score. He’d never pretended it was other than it was--whatever the hell t... JOSH LANYON ... bright young men of disheveled appearance, often with sunken glowing eyes, can be seen sitt... JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM We found that success involved much more than skilled individual doctors and nurses. What distinguis... ELIZABETH BRADLEY I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin... DAVID EDDINGS Devin wondered how often men did what they did, made the choices of their lives, for reasons that we... GUY GAVRIEL KAY The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use ... CAMILLA LACKBERG Yes, yes, it ended in my corrupting them all! How it could come to pass I do not know, but I re... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple... BELLA ANDRE She was a woman still controlled by the traumas of her girlhood. It made more sense to put her three... ZADIE SMITH They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dyi... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN While a man desires a woman, His mind is bound As closely as a calf to its mother. DHAMMAPADA There were some children round him playing in the dust on the paths. They had long fair hair, and wi... GUY DE MAUPASSANT In the morning, as we're enjoying a shower together, Cash asks Mikey how long he's been working here... GIORGE LEEDY I believe that any Christian who is qualified to write a good popular book on any science may d... C.S. LEWIS Daisy pulled away from Swift’s grasp. “You’ve changed,” she said, trying to collect herself.... LISA KLEYPAS The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain t... NEIL GAIMAN The abortion isn’t what they(conservative pro-life men of 1940s) are thinking about; they’r... GRACE PALEY They grabbed for me, but he bared his teeth in a smile that was anything but friendly - SARAH J. MAAS As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded... DAPHNE DU MAURIER Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, d... DAPHNE DU MAURIER The Chorus Line: The Birth of Telemachus, An Idyll Nine months he sailed the wine-red sea... MARGARET ATWOOD This tiger is sprawled So still and so flat, A question arises When glancing thereat.... BILL WATTERSON But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man wh... JAMES STOCKDALE Any other questions?" "Just one," I say. "What color are your eyes?" I want to know what he thi... ALLY CONDIE She was his dawn of bliss He was her dusk of wounds, Each day they came up to See a... TANYA GAMBHIR The Greeks believed that it was a citizen's duty to watch a play. It was a kind of work in that it r... TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, dam... MARY BALOGH We are trying to ascertain as quickly as possible whether more victims received fake flu shots and w... CHUCK ROSENBERG That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.... TERRY PRATCHETT For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste. PAULO COELHO They had gone in and cleaned it as well as they could. It was very, very cold because they were tryi... DEB DENNING Roo: What’s your definition of popularity? Hutch: I used to think people were popular b... E. LOCKHART I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive ... DAN RATHER I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had wo... MADELINE MILLER But what I would like to know," says Albert, "is whether there would not have been a war if th... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Mystics are not themselves. They do not exist in selves. They move as they are moved, talk... فرید الدین عطار The only ghosts, I believe, who creep into this world, are dead young mothers, returned to see... J.M. BARRIE Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting u... VICTOR HUGO He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get... NEIL GAIMAN My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” ... KAREN MARIE MONING So there we were. Once upon a time, during the storybook version of dating we'd gone through, I'd pr... DAVID LEVITHAN Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to... LAO TZU WOMAN: Hi, where are your copies of Breaking Dawn? I can't see any on the shelf. BOOKSELLER: So... JEN CAMPBELL It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we... BARACK OBAMA For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He c... ROBERT GALBRAITH we talked about doing something along the lines of a record label together, maybe me worki... ALAN YATES The King and Queen did the best they could. They hired the most superior tutors and governesses to t... PATRICIA C. WREDE when you are broken and he has left you do not question whether you were enough<... RUPI KAUR I'm lucky that I hooked up with my husband because he not only helps me but there's a joy for him as... SUSAN LUCCI Ephemera Your eyes that once were never weary of mine Are bowed in sorrow un... W.B. YEATS The spiritual muscles I hadn't used for decades began to acquire some tone, and since they were Cath... TONY HENDRA Umpiring was more of a side job for my father. Matter of fact, most of the guys, they still had to w... BYRON MOTLEY You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house... KRISTIN HANNAH A man -- I let the truth out -- Who's had almost every tooth out, Cannot sing as once he san... WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY They were actually sitting at a table, like two old friends, not like the hunter and the hunted... JANET EVANOVICH The only reason you brought me here tonight was because you thought it would appease me. Throw the v... NATASHA ANDERS The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS As soon as he was gone, we opened, "Baucis and Philemon." An elderly couple living in a cottage, the... DAVID GUTERSON Lazarus had never thought of himself as lovable. Therefore it should come as no shock at all that Te... ELIZABETH HOYT What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your p... JANE AUSTEN Nick‘s eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in the Twilight Z... SHERRILYN KENYON A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S... METTE IVIE HARRISON To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:... JANE JACOBS The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an ... GEORGE ORWELL
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