Her shoes squished with the movement and, as she peered uncomprehendingly down at them, a tadpole emerged from the leg of her jeans and flopped about on the ground. "Eew! " She pointed a shaking finger at it. "A tadpole. I had a tadpole in my pants!" "Lucky tadpole," he murmured.
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In the Palaeozoic time,
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She was standing right beside me. “Who?” JULIE ANNE PETERS What are you doing here?" she asked as she slowed from a jog to a walk and placed her hands on her h... KIMBERLY DERTING Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that ... CHARLES DICKENS Stop! Stop!” Sophie shrieked with laughter as she ran down the stone steps that led to the g... JULIA QUINN And I'm not sensitive at all, Philip. Just mean." He smiled down at her. "Have you ever co... NORA ROBERTS Valentine whirled. Clary, lying half-conscious in the sand, her wrists and arms a screaming agony, s... CASSANDRA CLARE Wait!" she cried, and she yanked away from him and gathered her heels and her ruined purse. She... ABIGAIL ROUX Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) I don't know how she did it. Fire She was shaking all over... PATTI SMITH She tilted her head, looking back down at Del’s notes as she absently tore the crust off her pizza... 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ROBERT FANNEY My father wrote beautifully,” Esmé interrupted. “I’m saving a number of his letters for poste... J.D. SALINGER Emily tucks her knees up beneath her and leans forward on the table. 'Do you like Ryan?' she asks Ni... JENNIFER E. SMITH Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?" ... MARKUS ZUSAK She narrowed her eyes at him. She wanted to tell him that it was his fault, that she would ne... KIMBERLY DERTING The door flew open, revealing a wrinkled, forward-thrusting face wreathed with a nimbus of wispy whi... LYNDSAY FAYE Celaena threw her weight into the dagger she held aloft, and gained an inch. His arms strained. She ... SARAH J. MAAS For the Wife Beater's Wife With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue Circling to ... BRUCE WEIGL Oh, I see. You’re horny.” Kent cleared his throat. “I believe we’ve had more than one d... ZANNIE ADAMS All right, then,” she snapped, “do as you please! Perhaps afterward we could manage a coherent d... LISA KLEYPAS Peter," she began. He looked up at her, and she could see the pain in his eyes. "I love you," she sa... SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT The Top Ten Reasons Why Virgin Val Sucks 10. She called me a one-hit-wonder. 9. She doesn�... KELLY ORAM In two easy strides, I reach her, weave my arms around her waist and lift her feet off the ground. M... KATIE MCGARRY Silverkit took a step forward and peered past him at Oakheart, who was standing on the far side of t... ERIN HUNTER She was beauty and intelligence stitched together with no seams She lived in a world with no d... HUBERT MARTIN Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little s... W.B. YEATS Amelia stopped before him, her skirts crowded between his parted knees. The clean, salty, evergreen ... LISA KLEYPAS Forget about that and kiss me," I say. I weave my hands in her hair. She wraps her arms around ... 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MARIE ANTOINETTE Let Them Book the Four Seasons, MARIE ANTOINETTE I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took ... MARIE ANTOINETTE Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. MARIE CURIE Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: th... MARIE RUTKOSKI We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if ... MARIE LU Freedom is hunting, feeding, danger; that, that is freedom --that it is which makes the veins to swe... MARIE LOVELL Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so... MARIE CURIE Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me. MARIE LU He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed. DEE MARIE I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose a... MARIE CORELLI If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh abo... MARIE OSMOND All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. MARIE CURIE To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very dif... MARIE LENERU By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few thi... MARIE DRESSLER It is not how old you are, but how you are old. MARIE DRESSLER I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove... MARIE CURIE Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand m... MARIE CURIE If the people have no bread, let them eat cake. MARIE ANTOINETTE Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. MARIE CHAPIAN Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are t... MARIE ANTOINETTE We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospita... MARIE CURIE I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy. MARIE CURIE You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us m... MARIE CURIE Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. MARIE LAURENCIN Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the genera... MARIE CURIE I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only ... MARIE CURIE I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you de... MARIE ANTOINETTE Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. MARIE CHAPIAN Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. Th... MARIE WINN We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but ... MARIE ANTOINETTE I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir... MARIE LOUISE I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I kn... MARIE CURIE Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat... MARIE CORELLI I am among those who think that science has great beauty. MARIE CURIE Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job ... MARIE BRENNER My head was full of tidying tips, and I had complete, albeit misguided, confidence that I could tidy... MARIE KONDO During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one ... MARIE CURIE Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stell... MARIE WINDSOR All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact,... MARIE CURIE We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, mac... MARIE CURIE Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he c... MARIE CURIE Cheating is never to do with how attractive you are. MARIE HELVIN I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. MARIE CURIE Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. MARIE CURIE Let them eat cake. MARIE ANTOINETTE You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things... MARIE OSMOND I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, ... MARIE CURIE I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose a... MARIE CORELLI I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you depr... MARIE ANTOINETTE Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as ... MARIE CURIE Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits p... MARIE KONDO