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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let s... CHRISTINE FEEHAN Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She ... ANN BRASHARES Keep an eye out for her, she tends to disappear intermittently, leaving no note for o... AKASH MANDAL She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing… "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty." Oh my Go... ILONA ANDREWS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life. BIBLE you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR Then you shouldn't have thrown her away when she was your wife. Now she ain't. Now she's somethin' t... KRISTEN ASHLEY Coraline took a deep breath and stepped into the darkness, where strange voices whispered and distan... NEIL GAIMAN When she walks out of your life, let her go SOTONYE ANGA I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we wer... NICHOLAS SPARKS She fastens her other hand securely on my wrist, and moves so that she's behind me. Good job, angel.... KATIE MCGARRY Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear... CHARLES DICKENS She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was s... JOHN GREEN She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her last... ANTHONY LICCIONE She looked tired, so I let her rest until the second half. Then she goes in and gets her first varsi... MATT PARRISH She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beaut... ERICA SEHYUN SONG Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ... RAY BRADBURY Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem he... KAHLIL GIBRAN She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touc... RICK YANCEY I have heard of daydreams – is she in a daydream now? Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am su... CHARLOTTE BRONTë He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intell... DORIS LESSING When my daughter was a toddler, I used to take her to a park not far from our apartment. One day as ... MAX LUCADO I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, s... GLENDA MILLARD You see her and ascend into love. You become enchanted, a found madman. In yo... KAMAND KOJOURI I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ... JOHN GREEN Well, you know the form,’ Bedingfield says. ‘She lives in that room and has her ladies – those... HILARY MANTEL Everybody knew where her house was. Everybody would walk past and point her out, ... She was an amaz... KWAME KILPATRICK She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for for... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER She talked me into taking my car down there and sure enough I could hear a log scraping the car unde... MARILYN MCCORMICK Let her go!" That was a new voice, young but full of authority. ... There was Prince Maxon. ...... KIERA CASS Hi,' he says. 'Hi,' she says back, and then to her great surprise, she begins to cry. 'You... JENNIFER E. SMITH So I watch her work and put all her energy, all her force, all herself, all is inside her work. Does... JINAT REHANA BEGUM She has a wisdom beyond her years. But what I love about her most is that she is a girl. Her playful... ELISABETH SHUE She is opinionated, as most of us are, but you won’t find yourself impaled on her arguments; she d... CARRIE ADAMS I told her we walk by faith and we're not perfect but the bottom line is I want to see her in heaven... RICHARD SMITH If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fa... AYN RAND Okay, here it is, your choice... it's simple, her or me, and I'm sure she is really great. But Derek... MEREDITH GREY I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was some... RANSOM RIGGS She grinned then traced her hands over his back. "I'm going to finish your ink, make you shine, then... CARRIE ANN RYAN We talked about it and I told her she is here to get through school. I told her I would take her any... BILL HANDER I think it sets up well for her. Her post [nine] is good, and I'd like to see her lay off the pace?m... JULIO CANANI When you walk out of your apartment, you think about performing; you do not think about how your opp... CASTER SEMENYA I told her to look in my eyes , but she said " if i looked into your eyes you will find love for you... ABDULLAH KHAN (AK) Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. JOHN CHEEVER Just remember, your mother doesn't let things happen to her. When something tries to ruin her life, ... KIERA CASS Stefan’s love bathed her, shone through her, lighting every dark place in her soul like the sun. S... L.J. SMITH If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert w... DARYNDA JONES I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! A... GASTON LEROUX She doesnt want your dark embrace. She'll let you hold her for a short time but she won’t submit t... DONNA LYNN HOPE If you kiss her cheeks, she is your friend; if you kiss her lips, she is your lover; if you kiss her... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I found myself in the dark, found her in the dark. I found light and truth in the darkness, hiding t... STACI HART When assaulted by sexual knowledge for the first time, a girl plunges into a period of blackness, wh... JOAN GOULD I had asked her about it when she was here. She [said], 'Oh, I don't know,' and I said, 'Well, keep ... CHANITA OLDS The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as we... LISI HARRISON Then, I exit her apartment. With practiced efficiency, I engage all of the locks in seconds. I want ... K. WEBSTER She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her... G.K. CHESTERTON I went to the property and spoke to Marion Lent and viewed the circumstances, which were not up to e... DONNA CAVANAUGH She painted it because the farm was where she was from. You paint whatever comes from your spirit, a... MARTHA TRASK She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her cheek to mine, murmu... J. SHERIDAN LE FANU When she spoke, the words were rote, taught to her by her captors, dead and empty, and forced. But h... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I think your allegiance should be to one country. I mean, she is exercising her freedom I guess, she... CATHY FREEMAN [We are out door-knocking with Burrill, Clevedon MP Judith Collins, or Miss Perky, as she doesn't mi... JUDITH COLLINS A love poem about the most invisible woman: The perfect mind, the perfect cover. I k... WILL ADVISE Bogdan screamed as Lada—Ladislav, now five, refused to answer to her full name—bit down on his t... KIERSTEN WHITE Remember to let her into your heart. JOHN LENNON The last breath shoots out of her, and then she lapses into unconsciousness. JOE MARGULIES I missed you,” she cried into him. Standing on top of the snow gave him an additional few inches o... THOMM QUACKENBUSH Took long enough,” she called out, not wanting to admit how the sight of him made her throat hitch... KATHERINE MCINTYRE She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were go... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Call her out,” Arabella said. “Tell her Rogan is yours!” Grandma Frida pumped her fist. ILONA ANDREWS I love her face when she smiles. But it could be that her smile is a lie that she uses to hide her c... MAKOTO SHINKAI Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers a... REBECCA MCNUTT She moved back for her own safety. Her tires were slashed four times at that apartment. JODY WALSH Their eyes met at the same instant moment, Therese glancing up from a box she was opening, and the w... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat... TIM O'BRIEN Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four. ALEX FERGUSON As I saw fair Chloris walk alone,
The feather'd snow came softly down,
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When I can get out of my own way. And the rest of the time? The rest o... ILONA ANDREWS It's not a loup cage, you know,' I told her. 'It's a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I d... ILONA ANDREWS Who is there with you?" "Raphael" Kate's voice snapped. "I'll be in Atlanta in... ILONA ANDREWS Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your lif... ILONA ANDREWS We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reaso... ILONA ANDREWS He glued the chair to my ass." Silence. "Is it still...attached?" "I can't get it off... ILONA ANDREWS Who is Hunter Becker?" "Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?" "I would've preferre... ILONA ANDREWS We don't need teenage bouda sex fiends as interns. How do you know he is a sex fiend? He i... ILONA ANDREWS Would you like to work here with me? We have no clients and the pay is shit. ILONA ANDREWS Aha," Andrea said. 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