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She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when".


P.G. Wodehouse

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HENRY JAMES She had scars all over her legs. She looked about 30 (years old).
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PHILIPPA GREGORY She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.
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STIEG LARSSON She dressed in bohemian clothes, penned novels, panted, and yearned to roam forgotten corners of the...
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KATIE MCGARRY So what if she wasn’t a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn’t wear her heart on he...
SARA SHERIDAN The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She...
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SASHA ALSBERG She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come tru...
DAVID BERGEN When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
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JOE WARD She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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JULANE SULLIVAN She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, s...
ANN BRASHARES She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be.
MARK HELPRIN When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window whe...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time ...
ROSS CALIGIURI She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hade...
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SARAH ADDISON ALLEN He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking...
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METTE IVIE HARRISON Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic...
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AMINATTA FORNA She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.
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KATHIE BRIGGS Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did...
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LARRY BROTHERS She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
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