Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty: he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. Of this she was perfectly unaware: to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.
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Related Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai... CASSANDRA CLARE They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fu... ANNE FORTIER The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only... YASUNARI KAWABATA She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... MICHAEL ONDAATJE Why could he not have chosen some other woman? Why Avelina? But he knew why. It was because she had ... MELANIE DICKERSON Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a... JANE AUSTEN His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL He looked at her and tilted his head very slightly in wonder. He had forgotten, as he always forgot,... MEGAN WHALEN TURNER The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of and that had come down to her had set a tra... SHERWOOD ANDERSON Evan stopped completely. He was staring at her with those intense eyes. Staring right into her. Just... KATE BRIAN With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ... VIRGINIA WOOLF She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who sh... ANAIS TORRES You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi... CASSANDRA CLARE He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months ... A.S. BYATT So he found her. Most people would have said she was relaxed. But then, Roarke thought, most people ... J.D. ROBB she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the... PAULO COELHO No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... J.D. ROBB But it was a happy and beautiful bride who came down the old, homespun- carpeted stairs that Se... L.M. MONTGOMERY Valentine whirled. Clary, lying half-conscious in the sand, her wrists and arms a screaming agony, s... CASSANDRA CLARE Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she... MATT TOMERLIN She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of di... WILLIAM TREVOR He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... AYN RAND He smiled at her, and Sophie’s emotions went to war. She had always admired Banallt’s intellect ... CAROLYN JEWEL He firmly pulled her body against his and he brushed her lips with his. Staring into her eyes, he li... LANEY SMITH He shook his head in disbelief. He would cook and take her to his place. He was about to break two o... MARCIA WEBER MARTINS Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair besid... JAMES JOYCE Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side.... ALDOUS HUXLEY She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, f... ELIZABETH GASKELL He was ruining it. Five minutes before, he’d looked at her with desire and she’d thought finally... ARIELLE HUDSON He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her,... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ He wanted to tell her how much he preferred to look at her, that only by watching could he memorize ... JERZY KOSINKSI She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their dar... CORMAC MCCARTHY Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, ha... CHARLES DICKENS Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smi... LYNNE RAE PERKINS Kiss me again,” he challenged, only half joking. It was so weird to hear him say that, to hea... KIMBERLY DERTING While this is all very amusing, the kiss that will free the girl is the kiss that she most desires,�... CASSANDRA CLARE It had been a long time since a woman had aroused his interest as Amelia Hathaway had. The moment he... LISA KLEYPAS She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he ha... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ... MARIE RUTKOSKI The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to d... JANE AUSTEN One of her arms was around his waist as her eyes fluttered open. He found himself lost in limpid blu... CAROLYN JEWEL Her hands warming on tea looked like chunks of knitting a child had felted in grubby palms. Enough d... LAUREN GROFF He had no idea how wonderful he was. How his hands were so beautiful she could hardly look at them. ... CAMMIE MCGOVERN His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with h... RICK RIORDAN I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you." He closed his eyes. And when he opened th... ELIZABETH HOYT He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking... PAULA BRACKSTON He moved closer to her, his face just inches away from her. They stood motionless. Jason looked deep... MARK A. COOPER Owen folded his arms around Morgan to steady her when she crashed into him, and was enveloped by her... KRISTEN CASEY He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aw... CASSANDRA CLARE And as she looked at the pool she saw the waters gather up into a column, rushing up foaming and sta... ELLIOT MABEUSE A look came into his dark eyes, a new expression she could'nt decipher. He stroked her lips with his... THEA HARRISON Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, s... LAINI TAYLOR He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her drea... CASSANDRA CLARE How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for w... ELIZABETH GASKELL He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. Th... LEIGH BARDUGO Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... CASSANDRA CLARE She gets a man who will love her completely and faithfully. She gets a man who will not only save he... QUINN LOFTIS Closing the door, Claudine looked at him. She looked at him, and while he waited for some expression... DOUGLAS WOOLF 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 He only allowed himself a quick glance at her, knowing as soon as he saw her that she was the kind o... ADI ALSAID Seven hundred years ago, Tersa had told [Daemon] the living myth was coming. Seven hundred years of ... ANNE BISHOP Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed... ELIZABETH STROUT She was breathtaking in her beauty and her human spirit, he thought, unable to speak as he gazed upo... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wa... KIM HARRISON But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. .... PETER CAREY They were both comparative mirrors of each other. It was clear to her now more than he had used her ... CRYSTAL EVANS There was an infinitesimal pause while he watched her face, as though he half expected her to recogn... LEE WILKINSON exhilaration fizzed through Clarke’s body. Before she realised what she was doing, she had thrown ... KASS MORGAN His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her,... MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER He started talking about his wife and how she was taking advantage of him, spending his money, ... H... GARY MCLARTY She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the... THOMAS HARDY Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN And because she was young, and so damn clever and amusing and wonderful, wherever she made her home,... SARAH J. MAAS Many times he had tried unsuccessfully to let go his hold on her. They had many fine times together,... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD She clambered to the shoreline. Numb and shaken, she began to dress. It wasn’t easy as she fumbled... JEAN M. GRANT And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... CASSANDRA CLARE He was shockingly easy to follow. The pressure of his hand, the step of his foot, the angle of his f... HEATHER DIXON She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... KEN FOLLETT Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen... EMMUSKA ORCZY He is so beautiful," she thought, aching from the sadness that she saw in his eyes. In the late-afte... SHIRA ANTHONY He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL Now with her eyes closed and fist clenched at her side. She was as off balanced as he was. Lilith to... SHADOWSTORM NORWICCA She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meetin... LAINI TAYLOR Juan Peron, I think in the end, had become a little resentful of Eva. She was so popular. She was so... ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed... JORI NUNES She shrank into her chair, sure that if he could see her now, he would know. The truth would be evid... MARISSA MEYER She looked into the mirror, wiping the mascara that was running down her cheeks with her tears and s... AKSHAY VASU He tore off her pajamas. She wasn't out with a fresh face of makeup with her hair done or a short dr... ANONYMOUS1234 Imogen looked at Ty, at the one man who could halt her stone-cold logic and make her just feel.... S... ERIN MCCARTHY His heart stilled at the mere thought of her hurting herself. 'He was a fool.' Of course this d... ELIZABETH HOYT All of a sudden, she was there, breaking away from the little group of women and running toward him.... BONNIE DEE The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ... AKSHAY VASU I love you," he said. She looked up at him, her eyes shiny and black, then looked away. "... RAINBOW ROWELL She flapped her hands, anxious energy coursing through her. “How can you be so calm?” He g... ANGELA QUARLES He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully t... NICHOLAS SPARKS
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JANE AUSTEN Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso... JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear... JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ... JANE AUSTEN Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe... JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ... JANE AUSTEN My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. 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JANE AUSTEN In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the se... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. JANE AUSTEN We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our me... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead o... JANE AUSTEN When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to... JANE AUSTEN The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwel... JANE AUSTEN Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always ... JANE AUSTEN I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few d... JANE AUSTEN It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. JANE AUSTEN She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho... JANE AUSTEN One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fa... JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taug... JANE AUSTEN The distance is nothing when one has a motive. JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. JANE AUSTEN A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever. JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself. JANE AUSTEN He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. JANE AUSTEN An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your... JANE AUSTEN From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, y... JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love JANE AUSTEN You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell m... JANE AUSTEN I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with ... JANE AUSTEN I have not the pleasure of understanding you. JANE AUSTEN I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the... JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. 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JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say... JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o... JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. JANE AUSTEN It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these... JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! JANE AUSTEN Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. JANE AUSTEN Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums... JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ... JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ... JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu... JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno... JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in... JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m... JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly. JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ... JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ... JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ... JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted. JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn... JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already. JANE AUSTEN