Mitch looks in her direction. He can't meet her eyes. It's as if she's semi-invisible, a kind of hovering blur.
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MARGARET ATWOOD She looks really tired. She had really black circles under her eyes and her hair was kind of messed ...
ELLEN KNICKMEYER I am not mad because I'm a woman... I'm mad because you're an asshole.
MARGARET ATWOOD The smaller girl hid her eyes with her hands, and Ewan smiled. Did she think that would make her inv...
C.J. MILBRANDT He told her that every one of her enemies, all the masters and overseers of her suffering, would be ...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I’m not sorry it happened,” she told him.
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MELISSA LANDERS You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer...an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to w...
MARGARET ATWOOD She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
JONATHAN SWIFT She looks at him (Andrew) with such love in her eyes.
APRIL GODRA A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are...
BETTY WHITE Life is not a b**** shes a victim of neglect so maybe we should give her some respect.
ANDONI GARCIA There ya are.” Erik grinned at her as he came bounding down the steps two at a time. He stepped ar...
MICHELLE M. PILLOW He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, ...
THOMAS HARDY You cant get around what he did to her, the fact that he plunged this six-inch knife into her chest,
JULIE MITCHELL Kara's been kind of hovering between varsity and JV all four years. She was disappointed that she fe...
CARLOS FUENTES When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.
ANTHONY KIEDIS While her high cheekbones and sensual mouth added to her beauty, it was her eyes that caught him. Th...
DONNA GRANT One of her arms was around his waist as her eyes fluttered open. He found himself lost in limpid blu...
CAROLYN JEWEL She was delighted to meet her old self when the wind unexpectedly blew in her direction.
The remains...
HENNA SOHAIL The bear was still hovering over the top of her body.
DAN HICKS She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend...
IDA HATTEMER-HIGGINS No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so li...
STELLA ATRIUM His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her,...
MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER Margaret De Wys's Ecstatic Healing is a holy voyage--a remarkable testament of one courageous woman ...
ITZHAK BEERY She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dar...
LORD BYRON She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of da...
LORD BYRON and she imagined an invisible bind around her neck as well, always holding her back.
STEPHANIE GARBER They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew tha...
NEIL GAIMAN And I miss her. Those who didn't get a chance to meet her missed their chance to meet a one-of-a-kin...
CONRAD COLEMAN She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
GROUCHO MARX As he touched her skin he felt the wind, as he kissed her mouth mountains broke down, he looked into...
DAVID BENTO GUERRA Shes been the biggest nightmare for me. Ive lost to her the most than any other player.
MEGHANN SHAUGHNESSY She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, f...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her so...
GASTON LEROUX Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai...
CASSANDRA CLARE His anger was still there, and he used it to break into her. He liked the way her eyes widened in al...
RUPERT THOMSON Um, thanks,” Jackson told her. “And your name is…?”
“I’m Margaret, Margaret V...
REBECCA MCNUTT I felt like we kept Margaret out of the game by putting pressure on her. We did our best to contain ...
JASON STREETS She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's b...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON But it was a happy and beautiful bride who came down the old, homespun-
carpeted stairs that Se...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I'm sorry for her loss. If I were to meet her today, I would give her a hug.
SANDY WATSON She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.<...
FRANCESCO PETRARCA So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea ...
E.M. FORSTER So few people understand about anything.
MARGARET ATWOOD She could feel the pressure from his hand on the back of her head as he forced her head down to take...
BETH ASHWORTH He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now...
ALEATHA ROMIG She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Th...
CASSANDRA CLARE My wife is a lovely leathery green, the blue-tongued lizard said;
Her eyes are as red as bulldo...
DOUGLAS STEWART ...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dr...
PAUL HOFFMAN Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was b...
CASSANDRA CLARE Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and somet...
KRISTIN CASHORE My character, she's kind of gotten away with her looks, gotten away with her ability to charm people...
SEX AND THE CITY My character, she’s kind of gotten away with her looks, gotten away with her ability to charm...
CAMERON DIAZ She wanted a fucking cock... she wanted sex look in her eyes... you see that... look how she looks a...
DEYTH BANGER He gripped her hard, forcing her to meet his eyes as he snarled, “I see you. I see every part of y...
SARAH J. MAAS She shut her eyes to block out the image. This was all kinds of madness. “Tanner.”
M...
AMY ANDREWS For the second time since meeting her, Echo looked as if I’d slapped her. Water pooled at the bott...
KATIE MCGARRY Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
MARGARET ATWOOD She stubs out her cigarette in the brown glass ashtray, then settles herself against him, ear to his...
MARGARET ATWOOD She’s the kind of woman who wants what she doesn’t have and gets what she wants and then despise...
MARGARET ATWOOD This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.
MARGARET ATWOOD The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure...
CORNELIA FUNKE She stopped for the duration of a glance around her, as if to recapture the place, but there was no ...
AYN RAND And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and str...
JAMES JOYCE When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he's also a composer. And when you thin...
MITCH LEIGH He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her a...
LEO TOLSTOY In a flash of wonderment she saw firm, continuous ground under her feet, stretching from back then t...
ANN BRASHARES He pulled her close kissing her mouth taking her by surprise. He stepped back passion smoldering in ...
AMANDA STEPHAN Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband ...
REBECCA TRAISTER He caught her, and he held her, and he let her cry, and cry, and cry, and he let her use his sheets ...
TARA JANZEN She shut us down, then Lauren Atwood got a rocket single off of her to start the third and it showed...
KEN ASHLOCK With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It had been a long time since a woman had aroused his interest as Amelia Hathaway had. The moment he...
LISA KLEYPAS The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said...
NEIL GAIMAN Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.
SAMUEL LOVER His face was tense, his jaw flexed as he stared at her. She could hardly stand to meet his eyes. The...
APRILYNNE PIKE Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and se...
NAOMI WOLF ...4-5-6: when time escapes the day in its most beautiful way. She starves for that beauty, she long...
HUBERT MARTIN Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she...
MATT TOMERLIN He only allowed himself a quick glance at her, knowing as soon as he saw her that she was the kind o...
ADI ALSAID Alysandir is a fine horseman," Isobella said. He was about to dismount, and she stepped upon a stool...
ELAINE COFFMAN They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment...
JORGE AMADO Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'..
.. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends calle...
MITCH ALBOM She realized that Rowan saw each of those thoughts and more as he reached into his tunic and pulled ...
SARAH J. MAAS Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
THOMAS HARDY Ana Magdalena nods. For an instant the blue eyes fix on his. 'She sees straight through me', he thin...
J.M. COETZEE Violet’s eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, “What is wrong with these people?
AMY EWING Cheryl's the first person he looks for, and he gives her a big hug.
DENNIS CHANDLER It was a blur to me. I saw her take it down the lane and said this is as good a look as we can get.
GREG STAKE Evan stopped completely. He was staring at her with those intense eyes. Staring right into her. Just...
KATE BRIAN Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a sp...
JEANETTE WINTERSON He said, "Were he only like his sister—what a difference that would make! For there never was such...
SUSANNA CLARKE And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes
to her feet, as they steal in and o...
WILLIAM CONGREVE He moved closer to her, his face just inches away from her. They stood motionless. Jason looked deep...
MARK A. COOPER At some point, she didn't know when or for how long, she found herself lost, lost in a song. Her eye...
JAMES MORRIS I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you."
He closed his eyes.
And when he opened th...
ELIZABETH HOYT She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she tho...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines ...
DEAN KOONTZ He could give Carolyn a good view on what kind of person she is, as well as her academic achievement...
HERB KRICKSTEIN Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowe...
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MARGARET ATWOOD Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to Engla...
MARGARET ATWOOD They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.
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MARGARET ATWOOD Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
MARGARET ATWOOD Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
MARGARET ATWOOD If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ...
MARGARET ATWOOD But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve...
MARGARET ATWOOD I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an...
MARGARET ATWOOD I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic...
MARGARET ATWOOD That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...
MARGARET ATWOOD There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a...
MARGARET ATWOOD We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...
MARGARET ATWOOD But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...
MARGARET ATWOOD Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat...
MARGARET ATWOOD Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
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MARGARET ATWOOD A word after a word after a word is power.
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MARGARET ATWOOD She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the cate...
MARGARET ATWOOD Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the ...
MARGARET ATWOOD The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, ca...
MARGARET ATWOOD Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
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MARGARET ATWOOD I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and...
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MARGARET ATWOOD Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
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MARGARET ATWOOD I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Dart...
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MARGARET ATWOOD How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fell...
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In spirit she walks the city, traces its...
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Walking through the ruins
on your way to work
that do not lo...
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'You have a rich inner life,' says Ton...
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we’d all turn thief
and rascal, or so says the fox,
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MARGARET ATWOOD There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
MARGARET ATWOOD Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so...
MARGARET ATWOOD Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the brig...
MARGARET ATWOOD The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by ...
MARGARET ATWOOD There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
MARGARET ATWOOD The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
MARGARET ATWOOD Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Secon...
MARGARET ATWOOD Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
MARGARET ATWOOD We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
MARGARET ATWOOD The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betr...
MARGARET ATWOOD Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.
MARGARET ATWOOD The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose
MARGARET ATWOOD I think of this as a democratizing device.
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm curious. If someone says 'Don't open that door', I'm right there!
MARGARET ATWOOD The main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing]
MARGARET ATWOOD For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
MARGARET ATWOOD He's very in depth, on the dark side. He's interested in structure and how things work. After readin...
MARGARET ATWOOD The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Just think of it as a very, very long pen.
MARGARET ATWOOD Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one
MARGARET ATWOOD This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
MARGARET ATWOOD We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
MARGARET ATWOOD A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
MARGARET ATWOOD Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are hum...
MARGARET ATWOOD They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to
MARGARET ATWOOD You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
MARGARET ATWOOD Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the Un...
MARGARET ATWOOD Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
MARGARET ATWOOD Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy...
MARGARET ATWOOD I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices,...
MARGARET ATWOOD Life is warped. I'm just in sync.
MARGARET ATWOOD I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it...
MARGARET ATWOOD We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
MARGARET ATWOOD My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out...
MARGARET ATWOOD Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing...
MARGARET ATWOOD Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
MARGARET ATWOOD Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't chan...
MARGARET ATWOOD She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why...
MARGARET ATWOOD The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more...
MARGARET ATWOOD