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She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past... MICHAEL ENDE
Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL He knelt down beside her and slowly rubbed a soft, muculent mix on her bare skin like a sculptor at ...
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when she looked longer at herself in her new dress, it was she but she living a different life, the ... MILAN KUNDERA A sharp pain in her chest became more intoxicating with each breath she took. There it was. The reas...
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House of Sand and Fog ... I suffer from migraines and when she curled up in the bathtub... I felt he... ANDRE DUBUS
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In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no... J.R. WARD
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effort... ORHAN PAMUK
And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much... EMILY MAGUIRE
This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she... EDITH WHARTON The first three innings she mowed them down. In the fourth they got a couple of runs on her, but she...
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Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her... AYN RAND What are you doing?" she asked.
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Toxic' was actually an accurate description of the feelings Clementine had so often felt in Erika's ... LIANE MORIARTY
Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she... JEFFREY EUGENIDES
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When you've lived as long as I have," he said, eyes heavy-lidded but definitely on her, "you learn t... NALINI SINGH
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She was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fort... HENRY JAMES
This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and ange... JODI PICOULT She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a ...
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SIAN B. CLAVEN
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My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br... GEORGE TAKEI
Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth.... MICHAEL GRANT
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She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times if she left him, harm would come to (... CHIEF JOSEPH
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She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all.
But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... ANN PATCHETT
In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha... D.H. LAWRENCE Unconscious. Mary Pat wanted to win this game so bad, it was written all over her face. Every inning...
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Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ... PHILIP PULLMAN When she went to the kindergarten to pick up the child, the teachers questioned her and asked her if...
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Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's... ELIZABETH GASKELL
She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... MERVYN PEAKE Now is everything
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Her hands warming on tea looked like chunks of knitting a child had felted in grubby palms. Enough d... LAUREN GROFF Florence could feel a constriction in her chest…She had been foolish enough to hope that whatever ...
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I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. The... CONFUCIUS ...she knew right away she was entering a new world. One she had never witnessed or played a part in...
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She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not ... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
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Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do... THOMAS HARDY
She was a woman still controlled by the traumas of her girlhood. It made more sense to put her three... ZADIE SMITH
She didn’t know how long they stood on that roof, tangled up in each other, mouths and hands rovin... SARAH J. MAAS
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And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hil... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that w... SYLVIA PLATH On tour, there was a young girl that came up to me and said if it wasn't for the song 'Home' she had...
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She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a se... T.H. WHITE The guy slapped her and ran. She ran after him. You don't slap a New Jersey girl and get away with i...
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On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight in... JHUMPA LAHIRI He felt she could be unpredictable and possibly violent. At one point, she indicated to him that she...
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Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for ... C. JOYBELL C.
There was a little girl Who had a little curl
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Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... BETTY SMITH There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her ...
JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST ... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and s...
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She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundam... IAN MCEWAN
She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, ye...
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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
..She still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did ever... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (Running against the boys has) helped her step up the pace. She had a hard time in those races, but ...
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FRANK L. DESILVA Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither t...
GAIL CARRIGER
