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She hated everything about it, from the cir... ANTHONY LICCIONE 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 She hated war and liked soldiers—it was one of her amiable inconsistencies. E.M. FORSTER To him, freedom was greater than love. She hated that. Because she had always thought t... TESSA SHAFFER She shrunk into herself and waited for me to stare at her like she was gross an dirty. But I just wa... KRISTA RITCHIE Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for. NICOLA STURGEON I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. Ther... ANDREA SEIGEL She knew she could do better and that we needed her to do better. She was frustrated, but at the sam... HEATHER STEPHENS I always hated distances. She loves it, though. We, and her coaches, have to caution her from overdo... LYNN LAFREE Stop it, she told herself. 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MARGARET MITCHELL She plucked a rose and held it to her face. She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fra... KIERSTEN WHITE As feminism broadens and becomes more radical, she becomes more of a centrist. Much loved by some, m... DANIEL HOROWITZ My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I... DAVE ATTELL She was a composer, carefully orchestrating how much of herself she let people see. Some thought the... LAUREN VALENCIA It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would nev... UMAIR NAEEM My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated... SYLVIA PLATH She wasn't very relaxed during the early part of the race, she was too aggressive, but thankfully sh... EDDIE KENNEALLY I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she... MAE WHITMAN I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom woul... DOROTHY HAMILL She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A g... KEIRSTEN WHITE Michael,” she whispered, wishing he would kiss her. “I love the way you say my name. You’re th... SARAH MACLEAN I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner thi... SUSAN GLASPELL 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 You skin is so soft. Smells like…” She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and... CHERRY ADAIR She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that rig... NICHOLAS SPARKS I didn't think she could do it. But she kept telling me at halftime that she could, so I decided to ... MARK MCKENZIE Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. 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She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew ... ALLY CARTER She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... MICHAEL ONDAATJE She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and ... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I knew Bethany could produce for us. Last year she was my No. 2 pitcher, and she was young. She's im... JANICE GILLESPIE But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored. VIET THANH NGUYEN Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much. DOUGLAS ADAMS Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i... GREGORY MAGUIRE She hates playing bad. She went through a time there when she really struggled with her putting and ... JULI INKSTER Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... NICHOLAS SPARKS I remember her sitting at the dining room table with the bills. She had everything balanced to the p... LARRY MORRISSEY I think she did her job as well as she was instructed to do her job. JACKIE WAGSTAFF My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was... BILLIE LOURD First time she's ever played varsity and she stepped up and did a nice job. I was hoping she would c... DENNIS MELCHER He always said how much he hated going to the hospitals. He became more (vocal) about how much he ha... LAURA NYGREN Between earth and heaven, this woman must be the most evil and the most hated person ever, yet betwe... 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I gave her a book by Anne Rice because she is always talking about her. And she look... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe I’m not the hero to her I've always tried so hard to be, because right now, I feel as if she... COLLEEN HOOVER She ran so smoothly that I didn't even think the time was going to be that fast, and she wasn't even... SCOTT BAIRD I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a be... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN She was excited, ... She was just saying her dad was coming home. There wasn't much I could say to h... CHARLES ARMSTRONG The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mout... SHELLY CRANE She attacked. What she did is she got into the lane and caused havoc. She not only created for herse... CHET REED It was a burden on all her muscles. A hollow deeper than her bones. She braced herself though, she k... HUBERT MARTIN She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. 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BILL O'REILLY Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobo... ERICA O'ROURKE I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the r... STEWART O'NAN The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in ... STEWART O'NAN That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowsto... R.B. O'BRIEN The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated cauti... MARK O'CONNELL To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the i... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had n... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a si... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be... R.B. O'BRIEN That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You co... TIM O'BRIEN The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not... JOSEPH O'NEILL When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered. JOHN O'DONOHUE Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. TIM O'BRIEN Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When ... MEGHAN O'ROURKE There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a ... STEWART O'NAN We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate those ... TIM O'BRIEN It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero. TIM O'BRIEN Experience has taught me that what you love, you should love all the harder because someday it will ... RONAN O'BRIEN A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks mo... P.J. O'ROURKE Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and ... PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me. KELVIN O'RALPH I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wis... PETER O'TOOLE I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ... JENNY O'CONNELL If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen. CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio... MARY O'MALLEY What the hell is that?" he asked. "Magic mushrooms." "I've always wanted to try those," he... HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.Oh, so that we sha... DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu... STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ... P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations! JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ... ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable... DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles... FLANNERY O'CONNOR