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Related She told me that she would like to meet with her family as soon as possible. She wants us to make ef... SHINZO ABE If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an a... FRED WARD A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT She told me that she loved me. She told me that everything would be okay. She told me to... ANGEL MCGREGOR In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi... LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the... LAO SHE …the pain of neuralgia…she knew what they thought. That she was cold. Couldn't feel. But in fact... LOUISE PENNY She gave in to a hankering for a cup of tea even though she knew that the idea of a cup of tea-sitti... MARYANNE O'HARA No, she did not want to go to hospital. Yes, she would like a cup of tea. Only then did she begin to... STIEG LARSSON My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL Yes, she made me love her. But she didn't mean to. She took by giving... and that makes all the diff... JOAN D. VINGE Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and en... JOHN SCALZI Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and... ELIZABETH GASKELL A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water NANCY REAGAN Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me... SIDNEY SHELDON I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comf... GILLIAN FLYNN When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while ... MARKUS ZUSAK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She ... NEIL GAIMAN In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank ... C.E. MURPHY My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS She told me that she had found an old house that she really loved. She would say 'I want you to come... LUTHER HILL She: Why was there a distance between you and me? He: Distance makes us realize how much we mis... AVIJEET DAS Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS I like you so much," she says between kisses. And I can tell she wants to say love instead of like, ... TIM THARP She wanted to be wanted, that's all. She'd come up to get a pop, a tea, a paper ...she'd confide in ... JOSEPH SPARICO She then went to the house of a friend for an afternoon tea, where she said she wasn't feeling well ... JAMIE DIXON Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredib... BESS MYERSON I laid it all out for him: Eliza believes in me, she moves me, and she's moved BY me. She makes me h... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO He took her like He took my mother. To torment me! To kill me and keep me alive to live dead! She di... LUCIAN BANE She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. ... ELIZABETH GASKELL She was very good as a freshman, and then the latter part of her career her golf took a turn for the... DAN BROOKS My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag... WESLEY CLARK I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win me... ALISTAIR BROWNLEE A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she... JACKIE PARSLEY While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget..." ... DONNA LYNN HOPE It makes you want to tear up and cry when you think of what she did and what she accomplished. She t... LOU FREEMAN She pitched great. If you ask me, she pitched a no-hitter. ... She threw amazing. ... She has very g... LACEY SCHANZ What if you should forget yourself in the excitement and just peddle straight through the park and o... EMMANUELLE DE MAUPASSANT Garth on where Sabriel came from "Sabriel grew very much out of the story... Sometimes people ask me... GARTH NIX She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'di... BETTY SMITH She may have been drunk, but she wanted the sex and that is legal. She needs to take responsibility ... JOSEPH AMENDOLA I just thought about the impact she was making on me. Then, it took more of a global perspective. To... KRISTINA MATARAZZO If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub. PATRICIA BRIGGS That night, she told me how much she was tired of hurting her mom and her dad. I still remember her ... CINDY GARCIA It is not a cold day, but she looks warmed by the tea. Tea has that effect on people. I love watchin... HANNAH TUNNICLIFFE She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that ... ROBERT M. DRAKE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doin... RICK RIORDAN She told me once that the year she went to England she painted her buttons yellow so she would remem... BRIAN ANDREAS You know this girl. Her hair is neither long nor short nor light nor dark. She parts it precise... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met ... RUDYARD KIPLING She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ... TONI MORRISON She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ... TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ... TONI MORRISON Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always... PAULO COELHO She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular p... PAULO COELHO It's Dana! She's back early." He ran his hand frantically over Mitch's neat, blonde hair. "What's sh... RICHELLE MEAD We have so many medical bills and we really appreciate your donations, but most of all we appreciate... LISA WENGER Yes, that is true, ... A mutual friend of ours told me that Alexandra wanted to give me that script,... ISABELLE HUPPERT In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as e... J. B. PRIESTLEY All of a sudden, she felt frozen. More chilled than before, as though she had been thrust into an ic... MEGAN FRAMPTON She took it over. She took advantage of her size inside. A good player will take advantage of what t... DONNA NICHOLSON I'm just doing your tea, Mum," he said. "Are you all imbecilic? Is that a requirement of enlis... GREGORY MAGUIRE She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffe... HENRY JAMES The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believ... DIANE SETTERFIELD At first glance you looked at Kate and thought “fighter,” maybe merc. Five inches taller than me... ILONA ANDREWS And yet, as she sits there with him on the window seat, with his strong arms around her, she knows t... JULIA HOBAN Melissa knew she didn't play real well (in the first half). She took that one shot and it barely tou... DAVE KERSCHBAUMER Jane ran cross country for me, but she told me she did better in short races. She wasn't kidding. JACK MICHAEL Jenny, if you're so convinced I'm a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?'<... ERICH SEGAL Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets. ELIZABETH GEORGE Gabriel told me he'd bought the watch for his ex-girlfriend, but she didn't like it. She said that o... NICHOLAS HOULT She took me in like I was family. She gave me a shoulder to lean on. She treated me like I was one o... ERICA SCHULTZ When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an a... J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six mon... DAVID SEDARIS A girl who travels knows that deep down she is escaping reality. So she’ll want someone to give he... LAUREN KLARFELD In the kitchen, she made passionflower tea, turning the jar of loose leaves in her hand while a teas... BARBARA DELINSKY Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER It always looked to me like she was smiling. In fact, I know she was. Lots if things smile, like a f... ROBERT NEWTON PECK Want some tea?" she said. "What?" "I thought some tea might be nice. A nice cup of oolong.... D.L. KING She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all. DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS To me she was flawless. She wants us to remember her as a caring mother, a devoted wife. She would w... SUMI MCCABE If you like somebody, then it's easier to play with them and it's easier to play harder beside them,... FRANCOIS FOURNIER I thought she was going to shoot it. That was the play, but she looked up and got me the ball. ASHLEY DAVIS You can't find anybody in Washington that doesn't like Katie. That's nearly impossible to do. I can ... ADAM LEVINE She brought up four kids alone, and for that she deserves congratulations. She took me to my first p... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kin... BILLIE LOURD Give the girl some credit. At least she told you, instead of letting you figure it out on your own."... RACHEL CAINE It was really tough, that was first time she went to the hospital (with) me not being around her, ..... FRANK GORE She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN Lash had been explaining to her that it's impolite to refer to an African American as a nigga, unles... CHRISTOPHER MOORE My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport ... MAX WINKLER For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the tw... KATARINA BIVALD I've been coaching 18 years and she's probably one of the most improved players that I've coached. W... KIM GERVASONI Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone. "You loved those white folks that mu... TONI MORRISON Your woman tells me you will hunt me down and eat my marrow while I live." "Did she?" Cha... PATRICIA BRIGGS In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was s... JEANETTE WINTERSON
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Is a lie!
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