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yet i deserved someone
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She shrunk into herself and waited for me to stare at her like she was gross an dirty. But I just wa... KRISTA RITCHIE She looked like she was dying. Her hands were black, her lips were black, her face was purple.
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She remembered years ago, when...
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So he found her. Most people would have said she was relaxed. But then, Roarke thought, most people ... J.D. ROBB
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I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I... BILLY CORGAN I don't think she would run away. She left her phone home, and no one has heard from her.
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Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear... CHARLES DICKENS
Will,” she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache... CASSANDRA CLARE
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerve... R.A. SALVATORE
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can w... ANDREA DWORKIN
She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was ... ELIZABETH HARDWICK
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What is this all about,' asked Sai, but her mouth couldn't address her ear in the tumult; her mind c... KIRAN DESAI It was only early the next morning that I found out she had come to the service and left from her re...
JOHN AIMERS
It was the perfect set. Theseus gave a great war cry and brought his sword arcing up toward Sheba’... TROY DENNING
Mine eyes
Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;
Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he...
BERNARDO BATIZ
She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. ... JODI PICOULT
In the pause that followed, Shane understood why people said their hearts broke. She always thought ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH
How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she... CASSANDRA CLARE
She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h... CHIEF JOSEPH She practices all the time. In the winter she would spend hours at her hit-away, swinging hundreds o...
LYNN REICHART
Peter..."He straightened, his back to her like a wall. Then, slowly, he turned his face toward...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT Elza needed challenges in her life, needed to be occupied. Without walls to climb or windmills to at...
MARC FITTEN Elza needed challenges in her life, needed to be occupied. Without walls to climb or windmills to at...
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SUSAN WEITZMAN
I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I hav... 
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our i... 
One of the things I love about music is live performance. 