Elizabeth George
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She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundam... 
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She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each ... 
Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could b... 
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. 
Ugly and ungainly. The least dependable creature you ever met. Just when you think you understand he... 
She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longi... 
They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all t... 
It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hea... 
There is no one or a group that would ever be able to achieve or accomplish anything unique except t... 
Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you? 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserab... 
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, t... 
I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one e... 
There was no real need for her to tell them that yet again, but that was all right with her. She was... 
I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a p... 
Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd hav... 
Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of ... 
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The idea of gas engines was by no means new, but this was the first time that a really serious effor... 
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Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been with... 
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making thems... 
He was safe for the moment, here in the playground, but people all over the world were suffering, st... 
I would be heartbroken if I ever thought that people in the Jewish community thought that Britain wa... 
Terrible thought she was brave. She remembered it now, heard his voice in her head as if he stood ne... 
I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest b... 
She thought if she could get the color off, her daddy would love her, ... She didn't get to eat with... 
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How much she wanted it - that people should look pleased as she came in, Clarissa thought and turned... 
And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't re... 
I used to write poetry when I was younger," Jess said. She had kept a notebook by her bed, in case s... 
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With no one to share it with, success would be just another reminder that she was alone. 
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No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you ... 
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. 
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. 
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People wh... 
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Fuck, she was so sick of herself—herself and her fucking emotional retardation. How did people do ... 
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Marriage is a great institution. 
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I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. 
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It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. 
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