Edith Wharton
Related She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remem... MAHITA VAS She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h... JULIET MARILLIER MICHAEL ONDAATJE LEO TOLSTOY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT STACIA KANE EDITH WHARTON CARSON MCCULLERS CASSANDRA CLARE NICHOLAS SPARKS STIEG LARSSON EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS JODI PICOULT DOUGLAS ADAMS It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardl... JEANNE PYLE ROBERT GALBRAITH DANIELLE STEEL J.D. ROBB RICHARD YATES ITALO CALVINO PATRICIA HIGHSMITH AMOS OZ She was a composer, carefully orchestrating how much of herself she let people see. Some thought the... LAUREN VALENCIA AKSHAY VASU NEIL GAIMAN Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who w... COURTNEY CAROLA GUSTAVE FLAUBERT RUPAUL ERNEST HEMINGWAY She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had t... BEVERLY CLEARY PAULO COELHO There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, midd... ELIZABETH STROUT She lived by herself and all she had was her Social Security. She made all the beads herself. DEBBIE DOOL PAULO COELHO The tears were there, waiting to make their escape. But she wouldn’t let them. Not this time. She ... ELAINE WHITE ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other... FRANCES HARDINGE She had a theory that the fear of getting in trouble was what made her not as good a programmer and ... MAUREEN F. MCHUGH ANNA GODBERSEN Annie, who up until this very day had always felt like a child--which is why she could not marry, sh... ELIZABETH STROUT All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. ROALD DAHL All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they wou... ROALD DAHL She had never been in love before. She'd tried to save herself the pain, but all her pretending and ... MELANIE DICKERSON L.J. SMITH DOUGLAS ADAMS Florence could feel a constriction in her chest…She had been foolish enough to hope that whatever ... SANA KRASIKOV Florence could feel a constriction in her chest…She had been foolish enough to hope that whatever ... SANA KRASIKOV She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt li... LISA JEWELL JANE AUSTEN KAGE BAKER ALICE MUNRO SAMANTHA YOUNG HOLLY BLACK GREGORY MAGUIRE It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would nev... UMAIR NAEEM Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed... ELIZABETH STROUT E. LOCKHART ÉMILE ZOLA W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM THOMM QUACKENBUSH JULIA QUINN MATTHEW DESMOND PAULO COELHO She showed him something no one else had ever shown him; that it was possible to love someone more t... CARLOS SALINAS They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how muc... KATHLEEN WINSOR He had secret loves all over town, the kind of curly-haired big-bodied girls who wouldn't have said ... JUNOT DíAZ THOMAS HARDY All Michelle wanted was to see for herself if she could do it or not. And when it became evident tha... BARRY AXELROD She thought often of her own death, but without fear, loss having been her only belonging in this li... ESI EDUGYAN ROBERT GALBRAITH JENNIFER E. SMITH RICHELLE E. GOODRICH SARAH J. MAAS SARAH WATERS KRISTIN CASHORE He smiled like he couldn't help it. She couldn't believe it. He was actally smiling , teeth an... KELLY CREAGH She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she... CHERYL STRAYED J.K. ROWLING D.H. LAWRENCE We had enough defensemen but not enough forwards and she seemed to be somebody who could make the mo... KRISTIN STEELE ROBERT GALBRAITH If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appe... ARTHUR WEIGALL HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN At the time he had closed in upon himself, denying her a place of entry. She was tenacious, aggressi... AMINATTA FORNA She understood that it had never just been about talent: it had also always been about money. Ethan ... MEG WOLITZER ORHAN PAMUK E.M. FORSTER {She} considered mentioning...how she, to, was all alone. But it didn't matter. So many stupid ways ... MICHAEL KNIGHT HENRY JAMES DOROTHY L. SAYERS TESSA DARE She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have d... MARIE RUTKOSKI JANE AUSTEN CECELIA AHERN JOHANNA LINDSEY CASSANDRA CLARE How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying s... OTTO FRANK AYN RAND Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared no... PETER CAREY MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
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BILL WHARTON The risk of anyone else being positive for it is very low. BILL WHARTON The board has told Mr. Boyd that they much appreciate all of his services. Unfortunately, his positi... BILL WHARTON He also has very good stroke mechanics, and much like Molly doesn't like to lose. They have it in th... DAVE WHARTON Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting. DENNIS WHARTON This is only a piece of the solution, and represents a transparent attempt by both cable operators a... DENNIS WHARTON At the convention we've got almost 113,000 people from all walks of communication. The industry now ... DENNIS WHARTON We can't remain stagnant. Look what happened to television, the Internet. Everything changes. DENNIS WHARTON We believe satellite radio companies were licensed for national radio programming services exclusive... DENNIS WHARTON Most TV and radio stations view the Internet as an opportunity to enhance their service to listeners... DENNIS WHARTON We think of broadcast TV as a lifeline in a time of emergency. A lot of the people broadcast TV serv... DENNIS WHARTON We've said we would accept a hard date and get spectrum back to public safety. DENNIS WHARTON Surveys we have seen suggest parents are using them. DENNIS WHARTON Most people would recognize that broadcast programming is far less explicit in terms of sex and viol... DENNIS WHARTON We're going into a tough part of our season. We've got five tough games coming up, starting with Cri... BRUCE WHARTON If we play that hard, with that intensity, we can be in most games. Even if we had lost this game, I... BRUCE WHARTON I think we kind of let up defensively. The first quarter we played full man-to-man. The guys maybe g... BRUCE WHARTON The request and reservation forms are available online on our Web site. DAVE WHARTON She's very talented. She can work hard and she loves to race. She loves the relays and loves being p... DAVE WHARTON Molly had a great day and really stood out. DAVE WHARTON I don't believe in shutting down practices just to win meets. Some people live and breath by dual me... DAVE WHARTON She's just an all-around swimmer. We try to utilize her wherever we have any weak points in the meet... 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EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf... EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min... EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b... EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be... EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ... EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin... EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow. EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit... EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ... EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr... EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo... EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'... EDITH PEARLMAN
She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... 
Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... 
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console ... 
Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure... 
...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all... 
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to s... 
She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all? 
Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... 
When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she ha... 
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of tw... 
If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that sh... 
She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. ... 
Women liked Strike—she had come to realize that over the months they had worked together. She had ... 
Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... 
No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... 
She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever ... 
And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able t... 
Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. S... 
She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had ge... 
The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ... 
It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but... 
But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t... 
'The Wizard of Oz' is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although ... 
But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken fr... 
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always... 
She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular p... 
She lived, we'll say,
It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false ... 
Ash held one finger up. "OK. Now listen-"
Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her ... 
The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to d... 
A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady... 
What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... 
there were moments throughout the whole day when she had to shake herself because she found her thou... 
She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all.
Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i... 
although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did ... 
It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they we... 
They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... 
Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arroga... 
She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years. 
Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always... 
She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making ... 
Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi... 
For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He c... 
But how could she tell him that the reason she always acted so disinterested in everything was becau... 
To love her was to taste sweet surrender. For had she not entered his life, he would have sought the... 
Aelin had promised herself, months and months ago, that she would not pretend to be anything but wha... 
She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remembe... 
She had thought she'd already reached her capacity for pain and had no room inside her for more. But... 
Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better t... 
And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he ... 
Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such thin... 
They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all t... 
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effort... 
She thought not so much of what had happened as of how she could describe it. 
She was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fort... 
Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, c... 
These kisses... they were confessions. Tastes of everything she had stored inside her. Everything sh... 
Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a... 
We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but ... 
She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she ... 
Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai... 
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which ... 
If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant afte... 
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. 
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time... 
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac... 
What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th... 
I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age. 
The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th... 
All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself... 
Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot... 
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever... 
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous... 
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. 
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki... 