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She is here everyday and the students who were struggling have just ... ZICKEYOUS BYRD No, she was just a woman. And that meant she could feel, she could need, she could give and she coul... LAURA LEE GUHRKE Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the... CORNELIA FUNKE I felt pretty good even when she got past Savannah because Michelle and Elizabeth and (goalie) were ... CINDY EMFINGER She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her hea... CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let s... CHRISTINE FEEHAN They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point... JENNIFER E. SMITH And she was really good at that: even since she was a little girl, she could eliminate the hours, kn... NICOLA LECCA She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. FLANNERY O'CONNOR She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. FLANNERY O'CONNOR All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I felt like at halftime we were in pretty good shape. I felt like we could win the game. We just mis... GREG GRANTHAM That would be a nightmare for me to have to replace Val. Bethany Hart was ready. I know she could ha... SHAUNA ROHBOCK S he has a next door neighbor that is also elderly, and this person was alone and she was not able t... CHARLES BUCKLEY When she was 10, we went out and played nine holes. I thought if she could break 70 that would be pr... GREGG SUNNER She [Draper] is just mentally tough, she likes to compete. We were trying to decide if she could com... BRAD CATTERMOLE He was like nothing she’d ever known. Marcii hoped she would come to know him, for he was all... ROSS TURNER The goal tonight was pretty much let Catherine stay with (Scott) as long as she could, and she did a... BECKY MILLER Louise told me that she'd never stay through another hurricane and she said that the debris formed a... EVELYN COLEMAN I've been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. S... MAUREEN CHIQUET She thought if she could get the color off, her daddy would love her, ... She didn't get to eat with... CHRIS CRUTCHER If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub. PATRICIA BRIGGS I really felt if this group could get it together, they could make a run at it (a championship). The... JAY CARLSEN Ashley has a tremendously quick first step. If we get her the ball in good position, we know she can... LELANI GORDON We weren't sure she would play. But she said she felt good enough to go and gave it a try. She threw... BILL KEEFER She was a coach that just wanted to get into anything she could get into. She loves working with kid... IAN MOONEY I looked down at America, who was now poking her cheeks with her fingers, seemingly just so she coul... KIERA CASS She'd make them wish they were never Alison DiLaurentis's friends in the first place. She didn't kno... SARA SHEPARD She was never known as a feminist. She would never admit to it, but I think deep down she was. She f... WILDA SMITH For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away fro... CASSANDRA CLARE Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their... JACK CAMPBELL It was a few minutes before Helena could stop panting. She dared not read any further, or she’d cr... SHERRY THOMAS She wondered whether cats could all talk where she came from and just chose not to, or whether they ... NEIL GAIMAN She refused to be one of those girls who fell for a pretty face that just white-washed a total jack-... KIMBERLY KINRADE I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We were just trying to defend inside the paint against (Charleston's) Paige Rice. For Misty to get n... CHRIS WATSON Thirrin could be charming when she forgot to be a princess. But just recently that happened only rar... STUART HILL If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. EDITH WHARTON She’d fucked him over hardcore. She’d betrayed him and she’d lied to him, and she knew that as... STACIA KANE Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she neve... GERMAINE GREER His soul,' she would say, 'picked mine up and we flew.' And to those who gave her a disbelieving loo... MARIE-ELENA JOHN She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which ... AYN RAND We felt if we could get four sessions to bowl at them, then we'd be pretty healthy. GRAHAM BARLOW [She was] feeling if she couldn't get through in the days to come, that she would have that, that sh... LYDIA SARTAIN ...She wasn't anyone special. She wasn't that brave, that clever or that strong. She was just somebo... ALAN MOORE If we could get her to play like that every night, there's no telling how good she could be. BRIAN HARRIGAN I've talked to her and encouraged her to do it. She's got a ton of energy. She's bright. She's artic... GARY COLLINS I could Photoshop for hours. I spend way too much time making thumbnails. I spend, like, two hours o... CONNOR FRANTA If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. EDITH WHARTON And I wonder if the caterpillar at the threshold of death ever knew that she would get metamorphosed... CHIRAG TULSIANI Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She ... ANN BRASHARES So that's it. That's the big secret. I tried to kill myself on New Year's eve. Just like Sadie did l... MICHAEL THOMAS FORD It’s enough for her to know, sitting in there in the dark, that if she really wanted to she could ... NAOMI ALDERMAN Stop it, she told herself. There was only so much she could control. But that ... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN She's such a gutsy filly. I thought she could have won the Spinaway if she got outside earlier becau... PETER HUTTON It wasn't a good fake smile. You could always tell when she was faking, because she didn't look frie... RICK YANCEY If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience. BARRY MCGEE She was never a dull moment. All she really needed was a pen and paper, and she could sit there and ... MARK SIGANA How could she not be happy? She was tall, thin, gorgeous and rich, rich, rich, with a husband who di... JOAN RIVERS A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM I think she works so hard at being a coach and puts forth so much effort. Most of all she has a lot ... BAILEY HANSEN Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing. Kids had yelled at her. Demand... MICHAEL GRANT My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace ev... ALAN FURST She was excited, ... She was just saying her dad was coming home. There wasn't much I could say to h... CHARLES ARMSTRONG She can play much better definitely, but she gave me the chances, and I'm happy I could use them. Th... IVETA BENESOVA We got a chance to meet a girl who spent most of her life in foster care. You could sense, even thou... DAWN DELUCA She wished he could make her somehow indelibly his; that they were still children so they could cut ... MEREDITH DURAN I had no clue what it was about at first. She just told me if I could throw the dice and count I cou... MARTHA BREWER Amy had always thought she was too vain and selfish to seriously contemplate suicide, also too afrai... EMILY GOULD Don’t look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,” she observed. “I... BEVERLY L. ANDERSON He was right – she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic marty... STEPHENIE MEYER She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool... ELOISA JAMES She read a lot, and was interested in world affairs, ... She was one of those people who could carry... BEVERLY BECKER She's going to be a good one. I don't know how high a level she could play in college, but it's goin... BOB SCOTT The tug of the lodestar slowly grew stronger until, with an abrupt quantum jump, it was a physical f... PAUL MCAULEY I think everyone would lose again if they brought her back to trial, ... Although, if she does go ba... ANDREA YATES We have to discount the teams they have played and just look at their production. We have to figure ... GARY BARNETT She could get lost staring into the kaleidoscope of unfathomable lifetimes swirling in a human iris.... TAOIST ELF I thought she (Bauer) did a real good job. She made some saves where she tipped the ball to herself.... MARIE MUHVIC She doesn't have any idea of how good she could be. We're talking about someone who could be in five... RENALDO NEHEMIAH Our first guests were unconventional- free spirits and hippies. We seemed to attract oddballs, and w... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me ab... CANDACE CAMP She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said... JANE AUSTEN What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged ... KIM VAN ALKEMADE Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilis... SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH It's not just that everyone looks very good, but very safe. They all go for the same look. Rachel Zo... KATRINA SZISH She sleeps a lot of the time but we can't wait to get her back home and spend time getting to know h... LUCY MARSHALL and afterward, after it was done, it was too much, and I felt like I was going to... I don't know...... RICHELLE MEAD I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything any... LARRY HOLMES She had followed me out to Hollywood from St. Paul. I was living in a boarding house, and she had a ... PETER GRAVES Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could b... DOROTHY ALLISON
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LOUISE BOGAN Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. LOUISE BEAL If you can't return a favor, pass it on. LOUISE BROWN Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else t... LOUISE BOGAN Every time I say sure when I mean no, every time I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, ever... LOUISE BERNIKOW People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. LOUISE HAY What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. LOUISE NEVELSON Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them th... LOUISE TALMA I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of wo... LOUISE NEVELSON Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange bea... LOUISE BOGAN They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho... LOUISE ERDRICH I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside. LOUISE NEVELSON Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. LOUISE BOGAN I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir... MARIE LOUISE And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refuse... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I ca... LOUISE MENSCH My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there... LOUISE ERDRICH I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. ... LOUISE JAMESON This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the mol... LOUISE SLAUGHTER Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity. LOUISE BOGAN Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical a... LOUISE HART The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! LOUISE HART Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming i... LOUISE FRESCO Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing ... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I really believe less is more. When you get older, too much makeup can be ageing, and when you'r... LOUISE NURDING My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In ord... LOUISE ERDRICH For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a b... LOUISE SLAUGHTER Very little is needed to make a happy life, he said. LOUISE ERDRICH Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fea... LOUISE BOURGEOIS The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and ret... LOUISE BROWN I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers. LOUISE NURDING Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's n... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I ha... LOUISE POST When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilien... LOUISE ERDRICH