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Related She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if ... JACKIE KAY Somehow, when she was 13, I convinced her parents to let us take her on the road trips. All the rest... DICK CATRI EMILY POST LOUISE ERDRICH COLETTE They were very private. They gave us the impression that she was improving. I had no idea it was the... EVELYN LOWERY ELIZABETH WINDER She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a ... LILY KING I thought she was at least 17. It wasn't so much that she looked physically older; it was more she c... ALICIA BICKLEY NEIL GAIMAN Now with her eyes closed and fist clenched at her side. She was as off balanced as he was. Lilith to... SHADOWSTORM NORWICCA (She was arrested) while a guest at that hotel and people thought that was overstepping our bounds. ... JOSE CUEVAS EDITH WHARTON I made one for a woman, and she was hugging it, wrapping herself in it and saying how good it felt. ... CATHERINE GIRGENTI We were probably Mom's main focus. She was a good mom. She always tried to provide for us. She wante... HALEY GRAINGER She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, s... ANN BRASHARES She lived alone there, and that is what I think had made her so vulnerable. She was like the rest of... LINDA SHULTZ SARAH J. MAAS JESS C. SCOTT Fresh in my mind now is how they tortured her to death, how terrified she looked prior to her death.... BOBBY SCHINDLER GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Oh yeah. It was a little black gun she had in her hand. I saw that. Just as clear as can be. And she... BARB BRUSSEAU She lived by herself and all she had was her Social Security. She made all the beads herself. DEBBIE DOOL CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE KATHERINE MANSFIELD LAUREN OLIVER SASKYA PANDITA ALICE MUNRO As for Elizabeth Bennet, our chief reason for accepting her point of view as a reflection of her aut... MARY LASCELLES LEWIS CARROLL LEWIS CARROLL MIRANDA JULY The fall caused a whip-lash injury and she was immobilized. It was very hard for her to walk, and wh... JIM LINK GUSTAVE FLAUBERT FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same... DAN CHAON This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed... JANE BOWLES LEO TOLSTOY They gave her a leash and a trained animal, ... and she ran with it. CLAIRE GILBERT SALMAN RUSHDIE AYN RAND LEO TOLSTOY She was a wonderful teenage girl who had the miraculous power to cure herself from any wound, either... KHADIJA RUPA In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi... LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the... LAO SHE BETTY SMITH My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while s... MARY LAWSON JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER LAINI TAYLOR PAULO COELHO Her doctors could not believe she was still alive and functioning as well as she was. She was really... ALLISON BAILEY They were very private. They would issue a little statement every so often. They gave us the impress... EVELYN LOWERY Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She ... ANN BRASHARES PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP We miss her. She had a happy life ... she was at a point in her life where she was comfortable with ... AMY URIELL Orlaith was the best kisser and she had a fantastic set of boobs on her as well. Even though I got a... MAKOSI MUSAMBASI KIMBERLY DERTING If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross o... ANDREW WILSON NICHOLAS SPARKS EDITH WHARTON She was just like another starter for us. She gave us energy. CLAUDE TYLER KATE CHOPIN She wore a coat and boots even when it was hot outside. She walked up and down the street talking to... CAROL WILLIAMS She parted her lips as though she were going to scold him, but, after a moment of sitting with her m... KELSEY BRICKL This was a difficult decision for us. While she has voted for us and supported us, many, many people... IVA NASH Anyhow, I get distracted a lot," she repeated.CLARICE LISPECTOR ELIZABETH BOWEN HENRY JAMES Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the... ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE MICHAEL ONDAATJE KAGE BAKER NALINI SINGH ERNEST HEMINGWAY WILLIAM CONGREVE WILLIAM CONGREVE For a moment she studied the sketch. It had been done in pencil and the artist was very skilled. The... ELIZABETH HOYT At the time he had closed in upon himself, denying her a place of entry. She was tenacious, aggressi... AMINATTA FORNA My research helped me understand she was a human being with all the problems and foibles the rest of... GRIF STOCKLEY She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew hersel... ANN BRASHARES She plays with her emotions on her sleeve, she's going to yell every once in a while. But her being ... MARQUETTE BURGESS J.K. ROWLING She had that courage and that heart. She was never selfish, and this is another example of it. She g... BEATRIZ LOPEZ HENRY JAMES She had by far her best offensive game. She's done a good job for us all year as a point guard takin... BOBBY ERVIN My dad just walked around in pain for 10 years. My mom, it just finished her off. ... She drank hers... CLIFFORD CHUBB STACIA KANE MARTIN AMIS In their own brief conversations, he had the distinct impression that she was toying with him, verba... DIANA J. OAKS F. SCOTT FITZGERALD For a while she cried silently until she tired herself out and the overwhelming feeling of sleepines... JASON MEDINA ALLEGRA GOODMAN Wild need slipped into his mind as she moaned into his mouth and he fucking loved how greedy she was... SETTA JAY But as she continued and finished her tale, I could tell that her heart was elsewhere, and when she ... KELLY BARNHILL ZANE GREY STIEG LARSSON She was excited with her performance as this was really the first time she pushed herself this seaso... BRIAN CORCORAN GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She told us she was in suspense (while writing the book) too, as if she was reading it. CAROLINE LELAND Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh... MARIE RUTKOSKI She had always enjoyed her sense of being alone, envisioning herself as a ball that rolled through l... LINDA HOWARD
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She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way... 
The people stared through her as though she were invisible until she thought she was, and walked mor... 
When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes. 
We knew she [Sylvia] was unusual, because of the seriousness with which she was treated, the lofty i... 
It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but... 
...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all... 
Celaena walked and walked, until she found herself by the tree-lined shore of a lake, glaringly brig... 
Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she consider... 
But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t... 
She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not ... 
She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sittin... 
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told h... 
When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to loo... 
She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... 
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). 
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it) 
For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was ... 
When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, more... 
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was sudd... 
All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that h... 
As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, ... 
She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her... 
Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for for... 
Karou was mysterious. She had no apparent family, she never talked about herself, and she was expert... 
She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making ... 
What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--... 
But she let herself think of Jay. And of the kiss. And suddenly the damp chill that had been clingin... 
Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... 
This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she... 
For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a c... 
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Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that s... 
She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... 
A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady... 
I have something for you.”
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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t... 
She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed t... 
She was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fort... 
Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure... 
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She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she tho... 
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The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees le... 
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Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here a... 
I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me. 
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I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features. 
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