He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be.
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Related This is no real surprise -- had been groomed to take over the job. What is more interesting is why C... COLIN MORTON What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go,... GARY JONES I think Martin is finished here at Arsenal as a player, but if he wants to go on and play somewhere ... ARSENE WENGER When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee... COKIE ROBERTS Eric loves Buffalo. He loves the fans. He loves living there. He's a Buffalo person. But should he g... HARRY HENDERSON There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, ... NICK HORNBY I didn't even know him, but I was tearing up just being there. I had to go somewhere else. AMY HUNT I told him angrily that I had been in front-line combat for over five months and no one would let me... 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He always encouraged me to do all I could in school. He told me I had talents... JOHN WILKERSON When I thought I'd killed him, I felt more alone than I've felt in a long time. Like I couldn't stan... KAREN MARIE MONING I'm not surprised. I told the guys it would take him two or three days to get his timing down. Barry... DUSTAN MOHR If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job. BROOKS ROBINSON No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He ... TRENTON LEE STEWART This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to igno... ERNEST HEMINGWAY He was asking me what he should do, and at that time I told him that if he had the courage and the h... JOSEPH TOWLE If they want to go somewhere else, they are free to do so. JOE LEONARD Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD He was somewhere else tonight. I don't how else to explain it. He turned it over, couldn't make a sh... BOB HILL If he played in a system where he had to constantly have his back to the basket, he would not have b... DAVE ROGERS If he had continued, there was a good chance Mike could have been hurt. He knew he was done. JEFF FENECH She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here... LEO TOLSTOY If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who br... TANA FRENCH When He'd told his mother he wanted to go to military school so he could though up, she'd given him ... CASSANDRA CLARE If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job. BROOKS ROBINSON As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious... CASSANDRA CLARE Vladimir told me he was going to retire and then his representative asked that he be allowed to have... LOU LAMORIELLO Life has been so unfair to him. He knew what had happened to him was wrong, but you know what? He wa... BETTY RAY I was just answering the phones, and the gentleman on the other end wanted to know when softball sea... LINDA WATSON It's a relief. We had been told earlier that he said he was not going to give up without a fight. KAMMIE MICHAEL I do think it is a time to kind of break apart and see if he can get a new start somewhere else. DONNIE WALSH Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at... A. A. MILNE Am I totally satisfied? ... If you want me to say Trent has lit it up, he has not lit it up. But Tre... ROMEO CRENNEL He was pretty impressive. He had a good fastball and curveball the first four innings. Then he found... BOB SCHAEFER From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not unde... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN But then she remembered something else, just a flash: looking up at Damon’s face in the woods and ... L.J. SMITH Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it...... MICHAEL LEWIS He told me that the police had spoken to him and that he didn't have anything to do with it. MAURA JAMES He had infections in both of his big toes and he told our training staff to do what they had to do t... DON MATTHEWS When he first got down there, he was 'The Golden Child.' Everyone loved him, ... He had his whole fa... JAMIE SHARPER I saw that he was looking anxious. 'I thought you weren't coming.' As he spoke, he grasped my h... JENNIFER PAYNTER He is about command as much as he is about velocity. If you had one you had to do without, it would ... MIKE SCIOSCIA He didn't know exactly where, but he said eventually he would be at a college and he would be lookin... JASON MITCHELL I knew this day was coming. I knew he was going to do this at some point, somewhere, and people woul... EVAN BROCK I'd like to have Billy back. He was throwing 100 [mph] in the last game. How many guys do that? But ... JIMMY ROLLINS He always hated that hed never be able to donate blood for someone else, ANGELA ADAMS Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that l... SARAH CROSS If you can control a man's thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. When you determine ... GEORGE G. WOODSON There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He s... MICHAEL MORPURGO I don't think there is anything else I am going to show him that he did not realize I could do, ... ... EDDIE POPE Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions w... MEREDITH DURAN But if he turned up somewhere else, I would not be totally surprised, ... Late Edition with Wolf Bli... PAUL WOLFOWITZ He knew all he had to do was beat the guy in front of him. He went out there and wrestled his match. AARON SARRA He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the c... SIERRA D. WATERS He thought I was just ignoring him, ... I told him that if I had gotten the letter, of course I woul... MITCH ALBOM This sense of absence had been growing ... It was wearing into him. Last night he had woken besides ... IAN MCEWAN Everybody else would take the chance to go to college. They look at the Marines as some hard-nosed s... DALLAS BAKER Jesus Christ could die instead of man because He was sinless. As a man without sin, He was not under... HENRY HON He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’... J.K. ROWLING You could have made a case for him as newcomer of the year if we had had one of those. I thought he ... CODY VANDERFORD If there was something else to do, then the bat houses had to wait. FRED BERLIN I don't know if Reggie would have flourished in any other city but here. The fact that Reggie, witho... CHERYL MILLER I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poe... JAMES SALTER If ICM can't get that movie made, then you have to go somewhere else where you can, ANTOINE FUQUA It was rough at first but I've had the greatest college experience I never could have had if I had g... MICKY MALLETTE We would have a session set up to do vocals and my nose would really close up and we'd have to stop ... BRYAN WHITE We would have a session set up to do vocals and my nose would really close up and we'd have to stop ... BRYAN WHITE Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had ... GISELE BUNDCHEN He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM ...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no... GAYLE FORMAN And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stoo... J.K. ROWLING Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no lo... JOSEPH HELLER [His opponents have recognized his potential from first-hand experience.] He was pretty impressive, ... BOB SCHAEFER we had been each other’s home and center for seventeen years. He could die if he wanted to and go ... MAYA ANGELOU I was better, so they pushed him somewhere else, to another spare part they had in the movie. MIKE VOGEL A man came to our visitor center recently and said he was looking for a place where he could eat and... BETH WAHL We just started the investigation, ... I wouldn't want to speculate if he was killed at the scene or... DANNY SIMON He came in my office one day and had this sheepish look on his face, like there was something on his... JEFF PYLE It was the second time he had done something like that, and Holland decided he can't be a substitute... JAMES EVANS Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could no... SELMA LAGERLOF She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and... CHARLES FRAZIER His self-esteem wasn't high, and he was trying to reflect too much on the things he didn't do well. ... BOB HURLEY If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then,... CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER Tony told me he spent so much time in prison, he was going to do anything possible to stay clean and... EDWARD GONZALEZ They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric loo... SHANNON HALE I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge... CHARLOTTE BRONTë He knew what had to be done, and you didn't have to tell him what to do. There was never any doubt t... DICK YOCHUM Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and him... JAMES JONES And not only of even mainly because of the protection it had given him - it was thanks to his own st... MICHAEL ENDE I told him he has to (come back). If I'm going to be here, he has to be here. I told him, 'How am I ... ANDY MCCOLLUM The owners at the time thought, well, were going to have to give all this money back, ... And he com... BRENDA JONES
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