She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before her questioners or her guards. In men's minds fear was a certain mark of guilt.
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She had no apparent family, she never talked about herself, and she was expert... LAINI TAYLOR She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was ... ELIZABETH HARDWICK Just what she needed. More filth in her soul. Someday, maybe, she would explode from it, someday may... STACIA KANE No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and ... JACQUIE SMALL To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely... JOHN PAUL STEVENS While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget..." ... DONNA LYNN HOPE She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'... ANTHONY LICCIONE Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. 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THOMM QUACKENBUSH ...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered... PAUL HOFFMAN He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, ... ANAïS NIN I was struck by Suu Kyi's warmth and generosity. No matter how petite she looks, she exudes amaz... MICHELLE YEOH He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and ki... JOE HILL When some women felt fear, they covered it with an iron grate of courage, I thought. Men might be da... KELSEY BRICKL Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... DANIELLE STEEL The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pl... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... NICHOLAS SPARKS In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha... D.H. LAWRENCE Oh no, absolutely not. I don't think that's you. I think she was caught in a moment of terror and fe... HELEN BOLLING She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial l... HENRY JAMES As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had n... PAULO COELHO After a while Luce curled up with her head leaning on a rock, wondering why she wasn't consumed with... SARAH PORTER She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the s... SOMAN CHAINANI And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much... EMILY MAGUIRE She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he... BERNARDO BATIZ But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... ANN PATCHETT Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost…cry no more as long as she weeps for... MUNIA KHAN My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere mo... VIRGIL After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a ... ANDREW WILSON She didn’t know how long they stood on that roof, tangled up in each other, mouths and hands rovin... SARAH J. MAAS No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Sometimes Coraline would forget who she was while she was daydreaming that she was exploring the Arc... NEIL GAIMAN She loved him because he had brought her back to life. 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BETTY SMITH Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit... PHILIPPA GREGORY Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without v... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert to her next disaster. Despit... G.G. RENEE HILL The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played ... HENRY JAMES Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... CASSANDRA CLARE There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would... GEORGE MACDONALD Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she... CASSANDRA CLARE This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed... JANE BOWLES Fresh in my mind now is how they tortured her to death, how terrified she looked prior to her death.... BOBBY SCHINDLER I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear... STEPHENIE MEYER Lydia had been fantasizing about him to the point she nearly drove him insane with it. It had taken ... MICHELLE M. PILLOW And the child, Francie Nolan, was of all the Rommelys and all the Nolans. She had the violent weakne... BETTY SMITH She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing... IAN MCEWAN Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 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