Tove Jansson
Related There was a little girlKRISTEN MCKEE HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW TIM BURTON ANONYMOUS TIM BURTON I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me... NORWEGIAN WOOD (THE BEATLES) JANDY NELSON HOLLY BLACK DAVE MATTHES There was an old woman KRISTEN MCKEE But why did she come back and take her card away?" asked Miss Mackintosh. "I told Florence that Miss... E.F. BENSON You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot... ERICA BAUERMEISTER JIM BUTCHER There was a young girl named Ratchet.NANCY J. CAVANAUGH Her close friends have gathered.KRIS KRISTOFFERSON HILARY MCKAY BRANDON MULL WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE RICK RIORDAN KATHRYN STOCKETT STEPHEN KING There is this quote that I read a long time ago. A quote that I loved and made me feel strong. It ha... CAMBRIA HEBERT I don’t want any money.”JONATHAN LATIMER I do know, however, that they took more than one man to their beds.”JULIE GARWOOD Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . .AL-MUTANABBī The Top Ten Reasons Why Virgin Val SucksKELLY ORAM JULIE ANNE PETERS Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertG.G. RENEE HILL GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He then kissed her.EVA IBBOTSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY SARAH J. MAAS KAHLIL GIBRAN LISA KLEYPAS STEPHENIE MEYER SARAH J. MAAS Books had always been a comfort to her. More than comfort. There were times when reading came close ... SARAH MORGAN KIMBERLY DERTING W.B. YEATS UNKNOWN She wasn’t broken.JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN WILLIAM PLOMER STEPHENIE MEYER EMILY DICKINSON JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER No Child of YoursTERESA COOPER Julita was being spinned like a top by a drop-dead-gorgeous Dominicano. Later she told us that he’... ISABEL LOPEZ The thunder howled and the rain splashed, the leaves played with the breeze and the lightning flashe... AVIJEET DAS SIMONE ELKELES WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She was beauty and intelligence stitched together with no seams HUBERT MARTIN Her phone beeps and she pulls it out again. She frowns.ASHLEY POSTON Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.SHERMAN ALEXIE PATRICK ROTHFUSS J.K. ROWLING PATTI SMITH CASSANDRA CLARE You've got the wrong girl."RICHIE TANKERSLEY CUSICK JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER LINDSAY LOHAN SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS MAGGIE STIEFVATER MARISSA MEYER TAMORA PIERCE It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her... ANN BRASHARES EMILY BRONTë SARAH DESSEN J.R. WARD SANHITA BARUAH DAVID LEVITHAN J.R. WARD LAINI TAYLOR You look OK. ... KELLEY ARMSTRONG STEPHEN CHBOSKY MELISSA MARR JULIA QUINN STEPHENIE MEYER DAVE MATTHES CASSANDRA CLARE Love Sorrow MARY OLIVER One little girl asked her mom if she could take $20 out of her piggy bank, ... I asked her if she di... TROY MILLER METTE IVIE HARRISON JOHN CIARDI MICHAEL THOMAS FORD MARISSA MEYER J.M. BARRIE See . . . um . . . the thing is, I met with Lisa a few days ago. She wanted to apologize for . . . H... STJEPAN ŠEJIć CHARLES BUKOWSKI NATALIE BABBITT EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY CORA CARMACK SARAH ADDISON ALLEN MICHAEL GRANT RICHELLE MEAD J.K. ROWLING Tonight I Can Write PABLO NERUDA JULIA QUINN JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER WALTER DE LA MARE LANG LEAV
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There was a little girl 
Voodoo Girl
There was a young woman named Jenny,
The Girl With Many Eyes
There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all.
Lovecraft says he knows about tentacles
There were guns on the coffee table. Like, a lot of them, broken out on cloths, being cleaned, leane... 
Suddenly Saffron had a picture in her mind of Sarah waiting at the bottom of the wall, and she was a... 
The girl with the long brown hair turned around. "Are you her boy friend?" she asked.
I was too young that time to value her,
There are too many of them." Reyna wondered bitterly how many times she'd said that in her demigod c... 
Once upon a time they was two girls," I say. "one girl had black skin, one girl had white."
Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, ... 
Do you love him?” 
I wish I was home", She said miserably. 
She took me to her room and stood me in front of her dresser, which was covered in a pillowcase with... 
How long was I asleep?" she whispered. He didn't respond. 
Seven times I have despised my soul:
I like holding it at the base.” 
Too young,too young,she chanted to herself.
His breath caught, harsh enough that she looked over her shoulder.
He loved her.
Why should I blame her that she filled my days
A little girl was sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story. From time to time... 
When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,
She died--this was the way she died;
She walks,
You call that a kiss?"
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain
Auri hopped down from the chimney and skipped over to where I stood, her hair streaming behind her. ... 
Hello, Harry!” she said.
Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971)
Valentine whirled. Clary, lying half-conscious in the sand, her wrists and arms a screaming agony, s... 
I said, I want to tell you something.
There was a girl I knew who always wanted to be the one to stand out from the crowd
Thanks to April,” she whispered, “you have the wedding you’ve dreamed about ever since you wer... 
I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,
When Kai fell silent, she risked a glance at him. He was staring at her hands [which she always hold... 
I love you, Jonathan," she whispered.
Hope Was but a timid friend;
Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials
As his ears rang and his heart broke for her, he stayed strong against the gale force she let loose.... 
Those were the three words seldom asked to her.
So there we were. Once upon a time, during the storybook version of dating we'd gone through, I'd pr... 
Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.
Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters.
I walked over to the paper and bent as the pencil began scribbling across it.
I must have been in the car for a long time because eventually my sister found me there. I was chain... 
I told them he'd be able to get you to go out." Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into... 
Stop! Stop!” 
She came towards me with a juicy gash between her legs that smelled like my best friend's sister" 
Love Sorrow
A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S... 
There was a young lady from Gloucester
Seven little crazy kids chopping up sticks;
When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tin... 
she is no longer
How old are you, anyway?' she asked, squinting at him.
Be to her, Persephone,
Then, slowly, like the sunrise peeking over the horizon, she smiled.
Stop it, she told herself.
He reached over and took Taylor’s hand. She did not pull her hand away.
She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but th... 
She was dashing back, an enormous old book in her arms.
Tonight I Can Write
Daniel chuckled. Whoever that poor girl was, he hoped his family was paying her well.
A poor old Widow in her weeds
A bird who hurt her wing,
Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red bo... 
It'd be awful if the world exploded, it's so wonderfully splendid 
On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the ... 