Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.
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Related He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the... AYN RAND While her high cheekbones and sensual mouth added to her beauty, it was her eyes that caught him. Th... DONNA GRANT But she never thought about the way Terrible looked, at least not that way. He hadn’t been ugly to... STACIA KANE Closing the door, Claudine looked at him. She looked at him, and while he waited for some expression... DOUGLAS WOOLF And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the cir... ANTHONY LICCIONE It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a... BARRY GIBB At a small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was a... AGATHA CHRISTIE When life shows you its ugly face, try to find the hidden beauty in that ugliness AMIT YADAV He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for... LEO TOLSTOY The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline... JOHN GREEN But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken fr... ERNEST HEMINGWAY And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautif... NATSUO KIRINO He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is... JOYCE CAROL OATES She was breathtaking in her beauty and her human spirit, he thought, unable to speak as he gazed upo... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE As he touched her skin he felt the wind, as he kissed her mouth mountains broke down, he looked into... DAVID BENTO GUERRA It was an attempt to alter her appearance. She didn't want anyone to recognize her ... her hair was ... BILL ELWELL Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a... JANE AUSTEN And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran q... JOHN GALSWORTHY Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life. NORA ROBERTS Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting th... JANE AUSTEN It was once him and her, but she lost him and thought for a long time she wanted him back more then ... AMBER The woman looked at her heart in all of its fragments. Its voice was clear and true as it reminded h... ESTHER DALSENO She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the... THOMAS HARDY Being with Mary was different because...he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her. ... J.R. WARD Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island c... ARUNDHATI ROY As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is wh... BERNHARD SCHLINK They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric loo... SHANNON HALE Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ... PLOTINUS He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS It is God who lets the wild apples grow, to satisfy the hungry. He showed her a wild apple-tree, wit... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favori... PHILIP K. DICK Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she... MATT TOMERLIN As a result of her decisions and her actions today, we are one step closer to this family being brou... GREGORY CRAIG Before he'd met Anna, he'd thought he'd known what love was, thought he'd understood about friendshi... GEMMA MALLEY The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement... GEORGE ORWELL It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the caus... JEAN GENET If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it. DEYTH BANGER As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the ... GEENA DAVIS It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have... ABRAHAM MASLOW I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our f... VIRGINIA WOOLF What have the nibblers ever done for you?" The breeze ruffled her hair, pushing it back from he... SUZANNE COLLINS But it was a happy and beautiful bride who came down the old, homespun- carpeted stairs that Se... L.M. MONTGOMERY Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard, blazing look in her face as... J.K. ROWLING A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such o... ANAïS NIN My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wa... KIM HARRISON Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, dam... MARY BALOGH He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everythin... CELESTE NG Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never le... D.H. LAWRENCE It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... RENEE AHDIEH There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him. CASSANDRA CLARE 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. LEONARD COHEN He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin... J.K. ROWLING Being young was her thing, and she was the best at it. But every year, more and more girls came out ... B.J. NOVAK He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her... ERNEST HEMINGWAY A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless an... ANN BRASHARES She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought t... MARY BALOGH So what if you burned a few books? Those librarians deserve it. When we're older, maybe we'll burn i... SARAH J. MAAS It was hard for a man and a woman to be fiends with no under thought or glimpsed prospect of sex. Th... A.S. BYATT The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effort... ORHAN PAMUK Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history... TOM ROBBINS And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absenc... JOHN GREEN For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. ... RICK RIORDAN She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... CASSANDRA CLARE The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a w... NAOMI WOLF She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what on... NICK HORNBY He was ruining it. Five minutes before, he’d looked at her with desire and she’d thought finally... ARIELLE HUDSON But Amy Pond. Oh! The Sea had briefly been able to touch her mind — it knew that the Doctor was th... JAMES GOSS Westcott gets a ginger ale and a Heineken. He doesn’t want the latter. He has to make the pre... WHESTON CHANCELLOR GROVE He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her l... FLANNERY O'CONNOR But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was ... NICHOLAS SPARKS Gently Agatha touched her face in the mirror, glowing from inside. A face no one recognized be... SOMAN CHAINANI He looked at her and tilted his head very slightly in wonder. He had forgotten, as he always forgot,... MEGAN WHALEN TURNER And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, ... ANAïS NIN You are so much more than I bargained for,” I confessed, which gained her attention. “I knew I w... C.A. HARMS Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK Her face looked like it would shatter any second. ILONA ANDREWS Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. BRENDAN FRASER As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, ... SALMAN RUSHDIE My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogethe... CHARLES DICKENS He was tender with her. He wiped her eyelids with his handkerchief, not noticing how soiled it was. ... PETER CAREY She parted her lips as though she were going to scold him, but, after a moment of sitting with her m... KELSEY BRICKL He was her first. She loved him, and she honestly thought that they would spend the rest of their li... VALENCIYA LYONS He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and... NEIL GAIMAN Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <... MARGARET MCMULLAN She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been as... JANE AUSTEN He could think of only one reason for her to be there, though it made no sense after what he'd ... CASSANDRA CLARE Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she ... CASSANDRA CLARE Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and kn... KAHLIL GIBRAN What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonize... THOMAS HARDY But when he looked at her—and she looked at him—they both knew that there was something worse th... KRISTIN HANNAH
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BRIAN GREENE Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na... BRIAN GREENE I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. BRIAN GREENE We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ... BRIAN GREENE There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo... BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s... BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl... BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans... BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor... BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa... BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo... BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ... SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane. ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.' NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin... NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang. BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib... ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ... ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good. ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that. ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott... ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con... ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens. ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do. ALAN GREENE