She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.
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Related I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she ... STEPHEN COLBERT She had missed him so long now, that the feeling had become a part of her. As each day passed, the m... COCO J. GINGER With the regular ACL, she would have been walking the next day. But her muscles atrophied so much mo... KATHY MATHEWS I think she would say her life was a gift, and ... basically the most important thing about her is s... FC DALLAS But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... ANN PATCHETT She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was... BRIAN ANDREAS She (Olivo) called me the day before she left (for La Academia USA). She was so excited and her enth... DAVE SCHMIDT It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a f... ELIZABETH HOYT She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymo... ALICE SEBOLD There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand acro... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t... BETTY SMITH She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even m... RICK RIORDAN A lady called me the other day and said she was able to save $15 on her mother's prescription. She t... JEAN RAGS When she got onstage she was just a different kid. She was so confident and she looked so happy, and... TINA KNOWLES There was no woman involved to that extent in her day. She was a very forceful person, strikingly be... LAWRENCE HOGAN She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times the... ROBERT JORDAN All day today there was so much smoke it was like nighttime. DEAN DILLARD Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... KURT VONNEGUT She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past... MICHAEL ENDE Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN We had someone come the other day, and Alice was meeting two dogs and wagging her tail, and she came... CHRISTINE MARTIN She was so excited to paint each of the kids' bedrooms and her living room. She didn't think anythin... DAWN HEIDTMAN In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha... D.H. LAWRENCE My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while s... MARY LAWSON How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she... CASSANDRA CLARE Juan Peron, I think in the end, had become a little resentful of Eva. She was so popular. She was so... ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO That kid has so much heart and character. On senior day, that's going to be a sad day for me. She wa... GAY MCNUTT One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. TOVE JANSSON That day, she was going to the doctor. It (Rainbow Inn) was on her way. EUGENIA BLIZZARD She enjoyed cooking, but there was so much more to her enjoyment than simply a fascination with reci... SARAH MORGAN On a good day her breath could drop a bull at a hundred paces. This was definitely not one of her go... MICHAEL R. FLETCHER Starting this day, she was no longer going to be quiet, a wallflower no more. MAGENTA PERIWINKLE Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she w... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Her feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice, stole in and out,
As if they feared the ligh... SIR JOHN SUCKLING She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only w... RICHELLE MEAD At night I told myself a story, wordless, inside my head, one I liked far better than those in my bo... ALICE HOFFMAN As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be abl... JODI PICOULT When she quieted the jet engine buzz of worries assaulting her brain, when she stopped thinking alto... ERIN MCCARTHY With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exh... KHALED HOSSEINI 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 was just trying to get me away from there so they would stop beating me. GREG DARNELL One day a little chicken was being mocked by the other chickens,because she was small and they were ... GARY F EVANS... The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings... CANDACE BUSHNELL She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundam... IAN MCEWAN She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow... NEIL GAIMAN This kid was extremely hungry. I was pretty amazed no one knew about her. She made a commitment ever... JOYCE WALKER I just bent her over and kissed her. She went her way and I went mine. We never said a word to each ... ERNEST DUBAY Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tr... JHUMPA LAHIRI One day she felt weak and was admitted but the doctors found nothing wrong with her. Still, she was ... ANDREW TAN She was a little quieter before this game than she is most. This means so much to her. MARISSA YOUNG She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial l... HENRY JAMES At the time it was airing, Claire had been kidnapped. So instead of hearing her husband was a little... EDWARD KITSIS It's fantastically exciting. She's so young still and she was so good. I'm a big fan of hers. She wa... MONICA SELES I was starting to think of her as the "Goth Van Gogh" on a good day or "Vampira" on a bad one. She t... JUDITH M. FERTIG Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES I am burying her every day. She was my baby and I loved my baby. She was an angel to everybody. Ther... ANNE BOYD Stop it, she told herself. There was only so much she could control. But that ... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i... GREGORY MAGUIRE Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that... NAOMI ALDERMAN She was so tough to stop. I'm glad I didn't have to cover her. LIZA FELDMAN She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat... TAWNI O'DELL She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the b... BETTY SMITH She wanted to do something to help people. She was just so close to go out on patrol. She was just s... ROSALIE YANEZ She never wanted anyone in her kitchen, so the only way you could get to lick the beater or the spat... TIM KELLOGG It was a big day for her, and I was real happy for her. She moved the ball around and she just threw... JOEL ROGERS She was so thin I could probably deck her on the side of the head with a pack of Marlboro Lights and... AMANDA HOWELLS There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead. Wh... KRISTEN MCKEE She would never understand her sister. Her sister was like the weather, no, she was worse than the w... VICTORIA KAHLER I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT And one day, as she was buried deep in her thoughts, she heard a still small voice ask her
"If you c... HENNA SOHAIL I wonder how many times each day she dies a little. LIBBA BRAY No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and ... JACQUIE SMALL We went there to support her, so that she would feel that her family was there supporting her win or... LOURDES ELIZALDE Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, ... JOSEPH CONRAD She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter t... ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she ... JERRY SPINELLI So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she ... JERRY SPINELLI 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 In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction tha... TONI MORRISON She played great, she single-handedly took the ball in the box and they couldn't stop her. She was a... MIKE ALLEN Anyone who became a new principal, she would take under her wing and make them feel comfortable. She... ANN CLARK Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. Sh... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But... ANNA GODBERSEN Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is y... PATRICK ROTHFUSS She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her last... ANTHONY LICCIONE What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... ALICE MUNRO I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was my life. ANNE AUSTIN It is like a documentary because she has it written day-by-day and incident-by-incident. She was a p... JOAN ROSCOE Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure... STACIA KANE She would call me every day on her way to work. Yesterday I was waiting for her to call and it never... MARINA DANIELS I was there for her. I buried one of my dearest friends. I was not going to get caught up in the min... LYNN COTHREN Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left o... BALTASAR GRACIAN And this car was sitting along side the road. So, we went in and asked the lady behind the counter i... WAYNE BARLOW One little girl asked her mom if she could take $20 out of her piggy bank, ... I asked her if she di... TROY MILLER Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tr... JHUMPA LAHIRI One of her teachers said she was one of the brightest students she'd had in 20 years. She was so str... DAVID MEADOWS She could make more phone calls in a day than any human being I ever worked with, ... She always cou... ELEANOR SMEAL Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite fo... LEWIS CARROLL In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; ... THOMAS HARRIS When she found a place of her own and packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him... IAN MCEWAN
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PAUL HOFFMAN There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then... MARY HOFFMAN The city took it upon themselves to reclaim the site for reuse. It was never approved by the agencie... ANDREW HOFFMAN It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe... ANDREW HOFFMAN Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th... ANDREW HOFFMAN It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year. ANDREW HOFFMAN (The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500... ANDREW HOFFMAN About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ... ANDREW HOFFMAN I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w... ANDREW HOFFMAN It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone.... ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it. ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything. ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources... REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive... PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest. BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun. ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time). ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all. ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer. ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible... AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes... AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate. AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug. AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit. AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get. AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your... AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil... ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow... REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ... REID HOFFMAN