Edith Wharton
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CAROLYN JEWEL There had to be a moment when he was compromised. He would have had to make a choice between living ... DANNY MORRISON EDITH WHARTON FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY She plays with her emotions on her sleeve, she's going to yell every once in a while. But her being ... MARQUETTE BURGESS CASSANDRA CLARE J.K. ROWLING HENRY JAMES And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me."SHARON SHINN MARY HARRIS JONES FRANZ KAFKA CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE STEPHEN KING J.D. ROBB His wife told police that he had had a concussion a few weeks before, and they didn't know what the ... MELISSA MCDONALD She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remem... MAHITA VAS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN UNKNOWN The cover was pebbled black leather, the pages onionskin, and he opened it carefully. It was his fir... CHARLES L. GRANT HANYA YANAGIHARA NICHOLAS SPARKS THOMAS HARDY He smiled at her, and Sophie’s emotions went to war. She had always admired Banallt’s intellect ... CAROLYN JEWEL Who would do a thing like this so brutally? Somebody had to be very angry at him. If somebody just w... WILLIAM KISSEL GUSTAVE FLAUBERT He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking... PAULA BRACKSTON J.J. was sensational once we found him. We did not do a good job of finding him at first, but once w... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI At first, he would take a couple punches in order to get his big punch in. Taking him out of that mo... FRANK BAILEY GASTON LEROUX One little boy came in with a dollar to buy a snack, and he asked about Paul. When we told him what ... JOANN SMITH If you had asked me, in the days of me dreaming about what would happen in the future, who I would w... BEN PLATT [His opponents have recognized his potential from first-hand experience.] He was pretty impressive, ... BOB SCHAEFER PRISCILLA GLENN ELLEN GLASGOW The sky's the limit. He would still be dominating today. 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JAMES LEE BURKE J.R.R. TOLKIEN C. JOYBELL C. JANE AUSTEN NEIL GAIMAN She had fire dancing in her eyes as she assaulted him with her serpent's tongue. Tonight she was not... SHAKUITA JOHNSON LAINI TAYLOR IAN MCEWAN Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but alw... PAUL HOFFMAN We knew we had to get him involved. They had him locked down pretty good in the first half, and they... CHAD CLUVER RICHARD YATES PAULO COELHO JANE AUSTEN RICK RIORDAN NIKOLAI GOGOL MICHAEL ENDE His discontent stemmed from dislike rather than appreciation for the hardness growing in him, and th... ROBERTA PEARCE I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had mean... T.J. KLUNE LEO TOLSTOY CARSON MCCULLERS W.B. YEATS F. SCOTT FITZGERALD W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM CASSANDRA CLARE SUZANNE COLLINS JAMES T. FARRELL ROBERT A. HEINLEIN STIEG LARSSON Her arms reached up to wrap around his neck, holding on as if she would never let go. She kissed him... DEBORAH BLAKE Lydia had been fantasizing about him to the point she nearly drove him insane with it. It had taken ... MICHELLE M. PILLOW If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in sh... AMANDA LANCE The first time I saw him, I had gone to scout a real good linebacker that University had. I asked th... BOBBY BURTON Keith had it a little better than most kids here because he had two parents in the same household wh... JEFF HILL MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with ... JAN-PHILIPP SENDKER ADLAI STEVENSON
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BILL WHARTON The risk of anyone else being positive for it is very low. BILL WHARTON The board has told Mr. Boyd that they much appreciate all of his services. Unfortunately, his positi... BILL WHARTON He also has very good stroke mechanics, and much like Molly doesn't like to lose. They have it in th... DAVE WHARTON Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting. DENNIS WHARTON This is only a piece of the solution, and represents a transparent attempt by both cable operators a... DENNIS WHARTON At the convention we've got almost 113,000 people from all walks of communication. The industry now ... DENNIS WHARTON We can't remain stagnant. Look what happened to television, the Internet. Everything changes. DENNIS WHARTON We believe satellite radio companies were licensed for national radio programming services exclusive... DENNIS WHARTON Most TV and radio stations view the Internet as an opportunity to enhance their service to listeners... DENNIS WHARTON We think of broadcast TV as a lifeline in a time of emergency. A lot of the people broadcast TV serv... DENNIS WHARTON We've said we would accept a hard date and get spectrum back to public safety. DENNIS WHARTON Surveys we have seen suggest parents are using them. DENNIS WHARTON Most people would recognize that broadcast programming is far less explicit in terms of sex and viol... DENNIS WHARTON We're going into a tough part of our season. We've got five tough games coming up, starting with Cri... BRUCE WHARTON If we play that hard, with that intensity, we can be in most games. Even if we had lost this game, I... BRUCE WHARTON I think we kind of let up defensively. The first quarter we played full man-to-man. The guys maybe g... BRUCE WHARTON The request and reservation forms are available online on our Web site. DAVE WHARTON She's very talented. She can work hard and she loves to race. She loves the relays and loves being p... DAVE WHARTON Molly had a great day and really stood out. DAVE WHARTON I don't believe in shutting down practices just to win meets. Some people live and breath by dual me... DAVE WHARTON She's just an all-around swimmer. We try to utilize her wherever we have any weak points in the meet... 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EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf... EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min... EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b... EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be... EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ... EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin... EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow. EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit... EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ... EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr... EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo... EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'... EDITH PEARLMAN
If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with re... 
You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the... 
Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss hi... 
She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration... 
I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countl... 
[He was right. In those first days after the President's admission to the nation, even his staunches... 
When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... 
What could the thing that was to happen to him be, after all, but just this thing that had begun to ... 
She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She u... 
Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He... 
She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candleli... 
Why are you telling me? he asked [Harry told Diggory that the first task is about fighting with drag... 
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. ... 
It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they h... 
She was breathtaking in her beauty and her human spirit, he thought, unable to speak as he gazed upo... 
At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes o... 
No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... 
Even now, long days later, the memory filled him with a bitter rage. All his life Tyrion had prided ... 
Joe was in court charged with parking his car in a restricted area. The judge asked him if he had an... 
And in an essential way, this was what he was most ashamed of: not his poor understanding of sex, no... 
Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi... 
She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality... 
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like every... 
Everyone deserved the chance to be redeemed, and Michael had gone his whole life never having it. He... 
A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first ... 
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him i... 
She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the begin... 
If he had even blinked, she would have been gone; but he did not blink, and he held her, as he had l... 
Ironically,” she commented, “this will be the first time I’ve ever done anything to please my ... 
Don't touch her," he growled.
The sword was called Kaledvoulc'h, which means hard lightning, though Igraine prefers to call it Exc... 
And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he ... 
Now he tried to find strength to tear himself away and go on a lonely journey -- for vengeance. If o... 
Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h... 
The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to d... 
The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain t... 
He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps ... 
He closed his eyes. This bed was a wedding gift from friends he had not seen in years. He tried to r... 
Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of thin... 
she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the... 
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to ... 
Truth to tell, it was a bit difficult for him at first to get used to such limitations, but later it... 
He tried to remember Moon Child's eyes, but was no longer able to. He was sure of only one thing: th... 
She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet s... 
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to s... 
He had many strange sights to keep him cheerful or to make him sad. I asked him had he ever seen the... 
As I went over to say good-bye I saw that an expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’... 
His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time h... 
And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made ... 
He struggled to get ahold of himself. This had to stop! He couldn't flip out every time he thought a... 
He told himself that he was a clown clean through. Every time a fly ball had been hit to him with me... 
Jill... had explained homosexuality, after Mike had read about it and failed to grok--and had given ... 
When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she ha... 
Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he... 
I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, It was an American... 
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. 
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. 
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac... 
What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th... 
I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age. 
The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th... 
A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un... 
During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert... 
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever... 
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous... 
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. 
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki... 