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Related Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever... ALICE MUNRO Why should she dress in a cap and gown and sweat in the sun, when her mother was not there to pose i... BRIT BENNETT She's just come undone," her mother had whispered on the phone to her aunt Bella. It was an old coll... KARIN SLAUGHTER At some point, she didn't know when or for how long, she found herself lost, lost in a song. Her eye... JAMES MORRIS Her large colon got wrapped around a stomach muscle near her spleen. She couldn't eat or go to the b... JAMIE WOODRUFF She looked into the mirror, wiping the mascara that was running down her cheeks with her tears and s... AKSHAY VASU exhilaration fizzed through Clarke’s body. Before she realised what she was doing, she had thrown ... KASS MORGAN I watched her, waiting. She smiled. Her lips curved up and the edges, and her chocolate eyes wa... STEPHENIE MEYER We took her off the machines. They weren't doing any good anymore. We took her around and she met he... BRYAN GOODMAN And he had just sent her into the arms of her strongest potential allies: to the homeland of her mot... SARAH J. MAAS Her mental toughness in games has improved. She's also learned to make a couple of extra moves to fr... BETH BAYLY ...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geograp... MICHELLE LATIOLAIS I assume you have a reason for manhandling my mate?” Cool words but his amusement was apparent. NALINI SINGH Knees suddenly weak, she reached for his forearms to stabilize herself. “You came for me.” ... MARISSA MEYER Celaena walked and walked, until she found herself by the tree-lined shore of a lake, glaringly brig... SARAH J. MAAS When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her ste... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Even when she's by herself, that's the biggest thing about her, that smile. On the court, you can te... ALEXIS JENNINGS Ladies, don't get the misconception of the story of Ruth and Boaz and think a man is going to come a... CHLOE M. GOODEN Her arms groped forward to guide her when her tears blocked her vision in darkness. Then she couldn'... CLARE MCNALLY you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Th... CASSANDRA CLARE Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same. "Barking spiders," she mutt... SCOTT WESTERFELD She went into the studio and laid down some foundation tracks. The engineer was pretty impressed wit... ERIC KEAWE What are you doing here?" she asked as she slowed from a jog to a walk and placed her hands on her h... KIMBERLY DERTING A man spoke frantically into the phone: "My wife is pregnant and her
contractions are only two minut... UNKNOWN She's definitely earned her reputation. She knows where she is on the floor at all times and she put... GEORGE ERDAHL Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the... ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE Seeing her swaying her hips all over the dance floor with a glow on her face, I had never realized h... MICHELLE LOMBARDO If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comf... C.S. LEWIS [Nora ultimately expresses herself with work that is her personal best, though shocking and pretty] ... JOAN BARFOOT So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for ... VIRGINIA WOOLF She's like pure sunshine with her warmth and glow, and I'm just a planet revolving around her. She p... ALEXA RILEY Courtney can't win games by herself. We have to figure out how to help her. She played great today. ... ERIN HIGGINS We were pressing and she slid in front of a girl, but she fell backward and knocked her head on the ... TIM SMITH Then Octavia drops to her knees, rubs the hem of a skirt against her cheek, and burst into tears. "I... SUZANNE COLLINS There was another problem with Emma's father, difficult for a small child who already thought of her... CAROL LEE Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She f... ROBERT M. DRAKE He laughed and was about to retort when she grabbed his collar and pulled him into her. She clamped ... DEREK LANDY Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her fa... JENNIFER ANTKOWIAK Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a v... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat. LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH You can close your eyes and think of England, if you like." "I've never even been to England," ... CASSANDRA CLARE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to ... MELISSA MARR They made her think of her grandmere, who had lost her husband and two of her sons in the war. She h... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Owen folded his arms around Morgan to steady her when she crashed into him, and was enveloped by her... KRISTEN CASEY She used to get a huge, huge smile on her face and would start waving her arms around. I can see her... BILL MORGAN She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around ... MONIQUE DUVAL Rosy lifted her arm, tried to say something, then pointed at the cafe, held her head, covered her mo... R.G. MANSE All of a sudden, she was there, breaking away from the little group of women and running toward him.... BONNIE DEE We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws. KATLYN CHARLESWORTH She was basically resting. She would come in and out of her rest, open her eyes, look around and go ... BERNICE KING After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn't stop her expectations from rising. She imagined h... CAMMIE MCGOVERN Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself w... HOWARD JACOBSON Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth'... MARGARET GEORGE If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross o... ANDREW WILSON I suppose it was the end of the world for her when her husband and her baby were killed. I suppose s... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Daisy was wearing a butter-yellow gown that wrapped tightly around her slender waist and pushed the ... LISA KLEYPAS Wrapping my arms around her, I walked her backward into the brick. “Tell me you chose me, Echo.”... KATIE MCGARRY She clambered to the shoreline. Numb and shaken, she began to dress. It wasn’t easy as she fumbled... JEAN M. GRANT Her father would return from China. He’d come back with all his soldiers. He’d pick her up in hi... PAOLO BACIGALUPI A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twent... ROBERT FROST She felt the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez strumming at her inner thighs lik... LAWREN LEO Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her... LUIGI PIRANDELLO Some twenty years her senior, he preserved a gift that she supposed herself to have already lost--no... E. M. FORSTER She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ... ANGELA CARTER The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't f... ANTONIA MICHAELIS Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, / Couched with her arms behind her golden head, / ... GEORGE MEREDITH She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she s... RAINBOW ROWELL It gets worse. Josh tell her that he loves her. She says it back. He touches her. She touches him ba... STEPHANIE PERKINS She's a star in her own right -- launched by the show -- but has proven herself on her own. She prov... BARRY JECKELL But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. .... PETER CAREY Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain. STEPHEN M. IRWIN A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup... PHILIPPA GREGORY Aelin took a step forward. One step, as if in a daze. She loosed a shuddering breath, and... SARAH J. MAAS Now as she sat in the candlelight waiting for his reaction, her chest hurt from holding her breath, ... LYNETTE CHAMBERS But she let herself think of Jay. And of the kiss. And suddenly the damp chill that had been clingin... KIMBERLY DERTING Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, s... LAINI TAYLOR He was ruining it. Five minutes before, he’d looked at her with desire and she’d thought finally... ARIELLE HUDSON Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, ... GILLIAN FLYNN Dorothy asked timidly: "Did his wife say anything? "She sent her love to you." Nora said: ... DASHIELL HAMMETT Do you think she is?" Her voice trembled. Her heart throbbed as she waited for him to answer. "You t... MARISSA MEYER She got into her black Mercedes across the street and they literally were like sitting on her car, t... LORI SATZBERG She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her... DENIS JOHNSON Ember was watching me, green bright eyes in the shadows of the room. She crouched against the wall w... JULIE KAGAWA The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering ... J.R. WARD Had Queen Coral prepared a throne for her missing daughter, waiting all these years for her to come ... TUI T. SUTHERLAND On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not t... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing h... SARA GRUEN She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly f... ISABEL ALLENDE She definitely surprised me. I've seen her pitch before. She used to be a keep-it-around-the-knees-t... LES OLSON I grab on to her wrists, pull them away from her face and kiss her lips, lips that can’t kiss me b... KATIE MCGARRY She feels the system has failed her. She lost her daughter in such a horrible way and nobody would d... IVY REAVES Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the dis... JOHN STEINBECK I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl lookin... ELIZABETH BERG Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to... MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind o... ROMAN PAYNE What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ... JERRY SPINELLI
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NORA EPHRON The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. -Nora Eph... NORA EPHRON When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thi... NORA EPHRON I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star re... NORA EPHRON I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onio... NORA EPHRON If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. NORA EPHRON I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series... NORA EPHRON It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was... NORA EPHRON Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?" Andrew gazed at him in silence for a mi... NORA SAKAVIC I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and... 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With idle, heedless pace,
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So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see;
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I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorles... NORA EPHRON I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. NORA EPHRON With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest in... NORA EPHRON You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets NORA EPHRON New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The o... NORA EPHRON There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same l... NORA EPHRON The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat NORA EPHRON It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and prim... NORA EPHRON We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry ... NORA EPHRON Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but t... NORA EPHRON One thing that happens because adults are uncomfortable is we use a lot of euphemisms. Those can jus... NORA GELPERIN It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ''They lived happily ever af... NORA EPHRON [A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own p... NORA EPHRON Get It Done Fast, Cost Effective and With Professional Results to Outsource Your Medical Data Entry ... SOPHIA NORA In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. NORA EPHRON Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that ev... NORA EPHRON What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would d... NORA EPHRON I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies - which I once thou... 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