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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 When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdnes... DEAN JACKSON She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remem... MAHITA VAS She looked like she had been beaten up, bruised. She had bruises all over her face, her tongue had b... BERNADETTE MCELROY As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had n... PAULO COELHO Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces... JANE AUSTEN They said she could not do it. But she didn’t listen so when she did it. And when they stood in aw... TONI SORENSON Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit... PHILIPPA GREGORY Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... KURT VONNEGUT Women liked Strike—she had come to realize that over the months they had worked together. She had ... ROBERT GALBRAITH She turned to look at Sebastian, lying on the bed. He was shirtless, and even in the dim light the o... CASSANDRA CLARE Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... LEO TOLSTOY How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for w... ELIZABETH GASKELL For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He c... ROBERT GALBRAITH She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not ... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Royce understood then why she had come: she had come to finish the task her relatives had begun; to ... JUDITH MCNAUGHT Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always... MATTHEW DESMOND Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do... THOMAS HARDY She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... KEN FOLLETT He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking... PAULA BRACKSTON Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she... MATT TOMERLIN She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN He offered her the world. She said she had her own. MONIQUE DUVAL He offered her the world. She said she had her own! HANAE AVLEE The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She... HAN KANG She always had a smile on her face. She was very upbeat, happy. She was a good Christian. She had so... JENNIFER CZAJKA She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream... JOSEPH CONRAD Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, sh... KURT VONNEGUT His mind drifted back to times past. He missed the companionship of his old pack. He had grown up in... ALAN KINROSS They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi... CASSANDRA CLARE But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. .... PETER CAREY She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h... JULIET MARILLIER Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a... JANE AUSTEN I thought it was important for Emily to throw tonight. She had a rough outing against Oregon State a... YVETTE GIROUARD Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons... JANE AUSTEN He is so beautiful," she thought, aching from the sadness that she saw in his eyes. In the late-afte... SHIRA ANTHONY She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console ... FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT I used to write poetry when I was younger," Jess said. She had kept a notebook by her bed, in case s... ALLEGRA GOODMAN He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her... ERNEST HEMINGWAY In that case" Tessa said, feeling hot blood rise to her face,"I think I would prefer it if you calle... CASSANDRA CLARE Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she consider... JESS C. SCOTT When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the l... SPALDING GRAY When had being an addict gotten so fucking hard? So exhausting? It had been so easy for so long; she... STACIA KANE Annie, who up until this very day had always felt like a child--which is why she could not marry, sh... ELIZABETH STROUT But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of h... STEVE MARTIN In her short life Lily Hartman had come back from the dead not once, but twice. Neither time had bee... PETER BUNZL It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but... NEIL GAIMAN And then she felt her Ell’s great strong presence beside her, and Saturday slipped his hand in her... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Damn, you're good,' he said and rolled onto his back. The man wasn't much for flowery speech, Alesan... JULIE GARWOOD She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... MICHAEL ONDAATJE I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI I have said that she had no face; but that meant she had a thousand faces C.S. LEWIS He chanced a glance at her. She was not tearful; that was one of the many wonderful things about Gin... J.K. ROWLING I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and th... COLUM MCCANN When they looked for her, she was not outside. She tried to go back inside, but she could not. MARIA RODRIGUEZ It was once him and her, but she lost him and thought for a long time she wanted him back more then ... AMBER She said that he picked up her son and threw him on the floor. He said that the little boy had fell ... DEMETRA BLEVINS Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign th... WILLIAM J. CLINTON She had some money left over from her allowance that I made her give her father for gas, driving his... MARIA PARTON When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she ha... STIEG LARSSON She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and gras... FAITH SULLIVAN He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice,... SARAH J. MAAS If she could take my strength. He put his hand on his chest, feeling his heartbeat. If she could hav... JAN HOLLY Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kiss... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Time to hunt?" Cattie-brie cried, satisfied that she had gotten her point across. She rose beside Wu... R.A. SALVATORE My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they... AVIJEET DAS She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watch... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI (Clare) had been hurt all year, ... Her first game back, she got the game-winning kill. I cried when... SHANNON DAVIS I think everyone was in agreement the John Bolduc had absolutely pitch perfect intonation and just b... JACK KNOX It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice... SARAH DESSEN His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with h... RICK RIORDAN The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ... AKSHAY VASU All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had ... JULIET MARILLIER Mrs. Jones had received a lot of injuries to her body, all over her body. She had over 60 wounds. Th... JOE WARD Bastard,” she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenl... ROBIN HOBB Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT They were not her children, she had no idea who they were, but they had attached to her, and she had... BIANCA WALKER Valentine whirled. Clary, lying half-conscious in the sand, her wrists and arms a screaming agony, s... CASSANDRA CLARE Absently, she brushed back some of the hair from her face, and she saw as Jaguar's eyes followed how... AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES I thought Trina ran well. You could tell she was giving it her all. I thought she had the best indiv... DEREK HOOD I thought Trina ran well, ... You could tell she was giving it her all. I thought she had the best i... DEREK HOOD But she loved her dad; she was a daddy's girl. She said her father had changed the life insurance an... MALINDA GONZALES She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed t... J.K. ROWLING She had always loved the stars. But tonight, she felt as if they were watching her, waiting for her ... SASHA ALSBERG When I came in [last January], I brought a strength and conditioning program with me. And when I bro... RAVON ANDERSON The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in h... JODI PICOULT While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions... E.A. BUCCHIANERI Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi... THOMAS HARDY He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and ki... JOE HILL It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardl... JEANNE PYLE George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, fo... METTE IVIE HARRISON If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appe... ARTHUR WEIGALL I told Sebastian that if she breaks well, don't take he back, but to see what kind of run she has do... JAMES CHAPMAN How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he someti... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I wish she had half a clue what seeing that happy face does for me. I can't quite explain it to myse... MELYSSA WINCHESTER But Julian's blood was different. When she saw it she thought of him, shot and crumpling, the way hi... CASSANDRA CLARE She was always smiling. She had such a heart for ministries. DAVID RIDENOUR
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JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who di... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material p... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people. EVAN G. GALBRAITH The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence ... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who ass... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the ec... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidit... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a conseq... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. ROBERT BENCHLEY In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. A... ROBERT ZEMECKIS A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins... ROBERT FROST Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r... ROBERT WINSTON I was always handsome under all the fat. ROBERT ILER In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d... ROBERT HASS Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti... ROBERT HERJAVEC Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio... ROBERT KIYOSAKI It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to ... ROBERT POZEN The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations th... ROBERT SMITHSON I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the ... ROBERT KNEPPER Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per... ROBERT HALF In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit... ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal... ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte... ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.' ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso... ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t... ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,... ROBERT KENNEDY