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DANIELLE JACKSON Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her fa... JENNIFER ANTKOWIAK Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she... MATT TOMERLIN In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; ... THOMAS HARRIS (Running against the boys has) helped her step up the pace. She had a hard time in those races, but ... ED MCKINNEY Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She... LATIKA TEOTIA But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... ANN PATCHETT Like a splendid mosaic of myriad colors, she in all her hues of sensitivity would paint her feelings... AVIJEET DAS Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... BETTY SMITH She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, ye... JERRY SPINELLI Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we... EVANNA LYNCH Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. PETER USTINOV And the child, Francie Nolan, was of all the Rommelys and all the Nolans. She had the violent weakne... BETTY SMITH I had a lot of confidence in her. She tries every time. Today was a tough field, but she's got the h... EIBAR COA I tried to enroll her in tutoring last year, and it was quite expensive. She had a lot of problems i... CRYSTAL SMITH I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag... LIONEL SUGGS It had taken her a good deal of time before she believed that she was worth all that fierce affectio... GAIL CARRIGER She smiled and he abruptly looked away. Was it really necessary for her to smile? It was bad enough ... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - THE JOURNAL The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in h... JODI PICOULT Her name...was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that s... DAN CHAON She was a composer, carefully orchestrating how much of herself she let people see. Some thought the... LAUREN VALENCIA She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... KEN FOLLETT She had it all going for her. She was very popular, she was a great student from a great family, and... J. TYLER MAKEPEACE This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became... MICHAEL ONDAATJE Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai... CASSANDRA CLARE Emily was tremendous. She is going to be an outstanding lacrosse player. She has a lot of different ... JOE TORNETTA Gracious ignored him. "A farmer's daughter, she was, though back then every girl was a farmer's daug... DEREK LANDY Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to m... PETER USTINOV She was born in the U.S., but she has some Austrian blood in her. PATRICK RIML I was very excited for Melissa Fuller. She's been working really hard. I haven't put her in the 100 ... JULIE WILLIS Do you feel that you are in a complicated situation today when nothing seems to be going right for y... LATIKA TEOTIA She has the ability to step her game up in big games. She did that last year in Seattle when Sue Bir... BRIAN WINTERS People are going to see you talking to nobody and think you're weird." This amused him. I... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ... J.K. ROWLING She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN But she loved her dad; she was a daddy's girl. She said her father had changed the life insurance an... MALINDA GONZALES One of her teachers said she was one of the brightest students she'd had in 20 years. She was so str... DAVID MEADOWS My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL She knew it was time, What for was the mystery but focused; she remained. She turne... NIKKI ROWE She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was ... ELIZABETH HARDWICK They tried to define her. Some called her perpetually enigmatic. Some said she was fucking crazy. I ... MISHI MCCOY Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She always had a smile on her face. She was very upbeat, happy. She was a good Christian. She had so... JENNIFER CZAJKA Catherine arrived suddenly during the middle of the year. Apparently she had been bullied very badly... GEMMA WILLIAMSON When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy whistled at her out of a car window when sh... LEIGH BARDUGO Her superiors called her in and said she was a management problem. RICHARD RAINWATER She was very smart, a really sharp kid -- she could have done anything she put her mind to. We calle... CONNIE KYRIACOU How did I love her? Let me count the ways. The freckles on her nose like the shadow of a s... LAUREN OLIVER When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's s... AYELET WALDMAN Wendy was a smart, kind, warm, funny, talented, generous, successful woman - that we all know. But p... ANDRE BISHOP She has the most bizarre and beautiful soul I had ever seen. Her eyes shined always like a�... 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Rowling has created is so wonderful. EDDIE REDMAYNE She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... CASSANDRA CLARE She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial l... HENRY JAMES Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she w... LAUREN CONRAD She started off the season playing much more aggressive because she felt like she had to. She just g... ANTHONY HOUSTON Some rumors said she was a demon from another world. Other rumors said she was death incarnate, some... SHANNON A. THOMPSON You could see it in her eyes, how much kill factor she has in her. Some of the shots she hit were ou... BOB FORD Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... DANIELLE STEEL Sometimes Coraline would forget who she was while she was daydreaming that she was exploring the Arc... 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She hadn't got a vicious bone in her body. And if we had privacy law here... ANDREW ROBERTS She was diagnosed with cancer at Thanksgiving time in 2004. She went into her doctor complaining of ... JASON QUINLAN And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much... EMILY MAGUIRE She was in the sand numerous times and her sand game, like I said, was extremely good. DAN ANDERSON Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smi... LYNNE RAE PERKINS Give that boy a cookie!" Now really wasn't the time to think about food. And where was she keep... JUS ACCARDO (She was arrested) while a guest at that hotel and people thought that was overstepping our bounds. ... JOSE CUEVAS The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she l... 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