Maude meant nothing that she said. She knew how pretty she looked in furs. She was a rattle, not understanding her own bnoise; but the scholar hung upon her words, and believed them inspired, and did not know they were murmurings from a shell.
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Related And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S... METTE IVIE HARRISON And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on h... STEPHEN CHBOSKY …always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comf... L.M. MONTGOMERY Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous ... IAIN PEARS Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, alwa... KATE DICAMILLO She had no idea how George delighted in her funny ways, or watched her through the window as she sto... ALLEGRA GOODMAN There was no real need for her to tell them that yet again, but that was all right with her. She was... DAVID WEBER Her instructions were to stay back and when people started to falter, she made her move. Once she wa... RALPH WHITE Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ... MARIE RUTKOSKI The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, ... TERRY PRATCHETT Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard ... ZORA NEALE HURSTON Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could ... ANNA GODBERSEN She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymo... ALICE SEBOLD When they looked for her, she was not outside. She tried to go back inside, but she could not. MARIA RODRIGUEZ Next was Alice. I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she look... STEPHEN CHBOSKY And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the cir... ANTHONY LICCIONE Hillary said today that she knew nothing about her brother's involvement (in Clinton's pardons). I b... JAY LENO My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL She did what she thought in her own professional judgment was best. She might not have been right, b... JOEL HIRSCHHORN In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi... LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the... LAO SHE The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ... AKSHAY VASU I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I li... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER She was dressed in Indian muslin, and beneath it she only wore a chemise of fine cambric, and by the... JACQUES CASANOVA The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believ... DIANE SETTERFIELD How did I love her? Let me count the ways. The freckles on her nose like the shadow of a s... LAUREN OLIVER Liz wrenched her hand from his grasp, and this time, she stepped boldly forward. “I will stay and ... WILLOW CROSS She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a... HOLLY BLACK I just thought about the impact she was making on me. Then, it took more of a global perspective. To... KRISTINA MATARAZZO She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... CASSANDRA CLARE But she loved her dad; she was a daddy's girl. She said her father had changed the life insurance an... MALINDA GONZALES Looked like the lady that was helping them was a, maybe a nurse or something 'cause she kind of knew... ANDY AKAMINE They said she could not do it. But she didn’t listen so when she did it. And when they stood in aw... TONI SORENSON In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; ... THOMAS HARRIS She did believe in God. And she believed that Jane was with him. And suddenly her pain and grief bec... LOUISE PENNY It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very speci... EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY She didn't even know her hand was gone. She did not scream. She was very calm. DAMEKAH RILEY Thank you, Coraline,” said the other mother coldly, and her voice did not just come from her mouth... NEIL GAIMAN I don't know what she was thinking. She is just a young girl, and she must have panicked. I heard he... ANTHONY FARRISI Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always... MATTHEW DESMOND You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot... ERICA BAUERMEISTER Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted t... MAUD HART LOVELACE They were not her children, she had no idea who they were, but they had attached to her, and she had... BIANCA WALKER I knew she was a super athlete and a fighter, but over the past two days she didn't give away much. ... GEORGES GOVEN The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,... PAUL BOWLES She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long o... ALEISTER CROWLEY I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... NEIL GAIMAN She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, ye... JERRY SPINELLI I thought there was a lot of speed ahead of me. I was sitting back and then I called on her and she ... ROBBY ALBARADO I thought there was a lot of speed ahead of me, ... I was sitting back and then I called on her and ... ROBBY ALBARADO Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She was a super teacher, ... She was so crippled with arthritis that when the students went to the p... MAGGIE MALONE She felt she was ready to go. Her caregiver, she told her she loved her and said to tell everyone el... JAMES ROGERS I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, ... PHILIPPA GREGORY It was true. Sugar did treat her bees like next of kin but then again, they were. Along with he... SARAH-KATE LYNCH How can she explain to him that every tear takes her further and further away from the box of razors... JULIA HOBAN I've been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. S... MAUREEN CHIQUET They tried to define her. Some called her perpetually enigmatic. Some said she was fucking crazy. I ... MISHI MCCOY Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even tho... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the... ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it ... JOSEPH FINK She looked like she was dying. Her hands were black, her lips were black, her face was purple. BRIAN HAUSLER You looked strange climbing in the tree like that." Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fi... JODI LYNN ANDERSON The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She... HAN KANG An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing a... MARIE RUTKOSKI Not playing got her into trouble. She was defiant and angry. She hung around the wrong people. It wa... IMANI ALI She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not slee... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature ma... GEORGE CHAPMAN Not everyone was healed during these services. She would tell those who looked to her for a healing ... MARGO MONG She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co... HARPER LEE She didn't drive, and everyone in town knew that, so they used to pick her up and take her places. T... MARILYN SHOGER She did not think it was love. She did not think it was love when she felt a curious ache and anxiet... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT Lila Bard knew in her bones that she was meant to be a pirate. VICTORIA SCHWAB Those who say, 'Well, she was just a drunk,' will get an understanding of what her demons were, what... ADRIENNE BARBEAU She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. ... MARITA BONNER Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh... MARIE RUTKOSKI She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would li... NICHOLAS SPARKS Perhaps she was happiest when she was out of control. She looked at the fates and said three little ... LAWREN LEO Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... CASSANDRA CLARE From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leavin... PETER S. BEAGLE Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared no... PETER CAREY When she was 12 years old, the furthest they would stand from her was about three to four feet. They... GARY GILCHRIST If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant afte... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way... EMILY POST My father always liked to have her around. He was so proud of how she looked. She was so pretty, sma... JUDY TESSIER She was a sweetheart. She was quirky, she was shy, but not if you knew her. ... (She was) just someo... JON CAREY She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of m... STEPHEN KING And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alo... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Sitting on the bench inspired Francisco. She doesn't like sitting on the bench, and that inspired he... LEDAWN GIBSON Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said
She ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She did emerge from her misery eventually, regained all the weight she had lost, and became her norm... DR. JESSICA JAHIEL She [Simpson] did great. I didn't know it was her first film till after the first take. She was so c... JESSICA SIMPSON
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the f... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-impor... ERNEST HEMINGWAY A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families al... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him. ERNEST BEVIN The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik... ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect... ERNEST RUTHERFORD All things truly wicked start from an innocence. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ERNEST BEVIN When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f... ERNEST HEMINGWAY That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re... ERNEST HEMINGWAY My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you... ERNEST HEMINGWAY You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab... ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th... ERNEST HEMINGWAY You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav... ERNEST HEMINGWAY It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as imm... ERNEST HEMINGWAY It was a pleasant caf ERNEST HEMINGWAY For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watchin... ERNEST BECKER Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer. ERNEST HOLMES One learns to itch where one can scratch. ERNEST BRAMAH As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which op... ERNEST RENAN No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain ... ERNEST RENAN Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the fun... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by... ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end ERNEST HEMINGWAY The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his l... ERNEST RENAN A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. ERNEST HEMINGWAY One learns to itch where one can scratch. ERNEST BRAMAH Ideas are the root of creation. ERNEST DIMNET There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when th... ERNEST HELLO My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. ERNEST MENAUL The cat has too much spirit to have no heart ERNEST MENAUL Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine ERNEST RUTHERFORD Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the so... ERNEST DIMNET