She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She skied recklessly. While Sylvia's rabid perfectionism was very real, she was far from the good-girl persona she worked so hard to cultivate.
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Related 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 There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And w... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. TOVE JANSSON It was a great race for Emma. She looked very strong the entire race. I was a little worried she was... ADAM TOPPER She was the quickest girl by far. She's incredibly fast. All the other girls were saying how fast sh... CHRIS MINTZ It looks like she drove farther south and then turned around when she realized she had gone too far. BARBARA MATTHEWS There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead. Wh... KRISTEN MCKEE Yesterday she was feeling very weak, she was tired and she was hungry as well, ... And my mom said t... JESSICA LYNCH And she was really good at that: even since she was a little girl, she could eliminate the hours, kn... NICOLA LECCA I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She was bad at love. She loved too hard. ANN BRASHARES She put out a persona that wasn't really her. Once I found out who she really was, I found out she w... SINGIN PARKS She told us she was in suspense (while writing the book) too, as if she was reading it. CAROLINE LELAND That's the kind of person she was -- and she worked so hard in everything she did, it was amazing. OLGA ABDALLAH Elizabeth is 6 and has been involved since before she was born. Her mother was a walker while she wa... BARBARA ATCHISON A little girl was being treated for shrapnel wounds and while she was in her bed a stray bullet hit ... ALEXANDRE LIEBESKIND It was bad. The little girl had two black eyes. She looked more like a little boy than a little girl... AWILDA CORDERO She played the saxophone and was taking piano lessons too. She was a good musician. MICHELLE WOOD She (was) very friendly when she wasn't running. She is fast. So fast you couldn't get near her. ANINA HENDERSON Aaliyah revolutionized what it was to be a young black woman in America. She made it OK to be a nerd... ALEXANDRA SHIPP Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, an... SIR THOMAS MALORY The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organ... KURT MASUR It was obvious Katie was not very good. She was awful. ... Katie was not only a girl, she was terrib... KATIE HNIDA Oh, she was just such a precious little girl. JUANITA MENDEZ She hugged me and she was crying really hard, more than I was. She was a little sick today and she t... IVICA KOSTELIC The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she wa... KRISTIN DAVIS It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply lik... IAN MCEWAN She was a vixen when she went to school:And though she be but little, she is fierce. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get her... CAROL GRACE I love Natalie Portman. She worked when she was younger, and she's so talented and private. She ... HILARY DUFF Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL She was a vixen and though she be but little, she is fierce. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She had the swagger of a girl. She blushed like a boy. She had a girl’s toughness. She has a boy�... ALI SMITH She was a loving mother. She was really rising to motherhood. She?s really raised a lovely little bo... CHERYL ARCHER It was so close and she was really disappointed to not get a chance to swim. We call her the 'torped... DANA FOSSMO Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel u... LAUREN KATE She was like milk - too pale, too pure, too simple. She was made to be spoiled. SARAH WATERS She always had a smile on her face. She was very upbeat, happy. She was a good Christian. She had so... JENNIFER CZAJKA She was just a giggly little 9-year-old girl. DONNA NORRIS That was her on the planes. She was very popular and she worked hard on the war bond effort. JARA UZENDA She was too good for a monster. STEPHENIE MEYER She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've always cautioned her about that. She trusted too many people. The girl would do anything for an... EUGENIA BLIZZARD We knew she was good. We didn't know she was that good. She was very, very aggressive. She crashed t... BRIAN FANELLI It's hard for Rachel to look bad. It was a little too much for the event. She sort of looked like a ... KATRINA SZISH There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she li... ANDRE LEON TALLEY She drove away from there. That was the last time she was seen. She did not return to her home on Ha... LT. DENNIS DINSMORE What a special girl she was. She was quiet, but she was powerful in own right. CAROLYN JACKSON I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite ... DANIEL WOODRELL She had it all going for her. She was very popular, she was a great student from a great family, and... J. TYLER MAKEPEACE She actually had about a 50-meter lead early, so I was getting a little bit nervous. But I had a fee... AMY HASTINGS Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged gir... RICHARD WIDMARK I knew from practices that she was going to be good. She's run strong so far. She's very competitive... SHARON NESS Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Alicia was a little girl, but she didn't play like a little girl. She was laying out for the disc as... CHRIS SCHNEIDER She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while. DONALD MILLER She saw what she saw. I didn't do anything spectacular. I think the coach worked on some drills focu... SOPHIA YOUNG Even now, even as she faced a lifetime with him, she thought of her sisters. She was legions too goo... SARAH MACLEAN She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit ... CANDACE BUSHNELL She preferred the times when she could pretend that she was in a gravity well to the little reminder... JAMES S.A. COREY It was a tough night, but she worked fast. JAY RAINES She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had t... BEVERLY CLEARY She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that ... ROBERT M. DRAKE She's not an overpowering pitcher but she pitches in spots and hits her spots well. I think she was ... LISA KIRK She's pitched on varsity since she was a freshman. I think she has quite well so far this year. KALE GILLMAN My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY She was like apple pie and just a normal little girl ALICE FAYE She very clearly said she was leaving. She was smiling. She was ready to go, CHANDRA LEVY She needs a vacation. She's worked so so hard for so many years. She's a young girl and she's a litt... DONATELLA VERSACE She is learning a lot from this and the lunch was good too. CAROL MILLER O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She didn't adjust well psychologically. She was still a little timid, always thinking she had to try... LU SHANZHEN She was a true sportsman. She was courteous. If she lost, she would say, 'Good game. Thanks for play... CATHY POOLE He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who sh... ANAIS TORRES She was a good woman. She was honest, she went to church regular. She always taught us right from wr... AUDREY JOHNSON Yeah, she was hitting me hard. She was drunk and she was hitting me hard. DAVID GEST She was a little quieter before this game than she is most. This means so much to her. MARISSA YOUNG She did a great job, and was a great fit. She was a consummate pro, and she understood her (tenuous)... STEVE SAVARD …tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getti... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT She has a nice voice, but she looks a little bit too much like Eleanor Roosevelt. LAWRENCE WELK She would tell you what she thought without hesitation. Sometimes it wasn't the sweetest thing, but ... LAURA WEIGER She was so impressed. She said these three students were by far the most intelligent and most articu... JACKIE ROBERTSON Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard. ANN BRASHARES She?s very poised, very confident. She?s worked extremely hard to get where she is. CINDY HAVENS I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a litt... AIDA TURTURRO She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somew... C. JOYBELL C. She looked like a little old man. She wasn't plump like a baby should be. She was skin and bones. ELIZABETH THATCHER Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she neve... GERMAINE GREER It was something that was very minor. She worked out and thought she was ready to go. She got to the... CHARLES WELLS One little girl asked her mom if she could take $20 out of her piggy bank, ... I asked her if she di... TROY MILLER When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window whe... LEIGH BARDUGO Cause I was diagnosed when she was so little. KRISTIE NAINES I thought she played really well with four fouls. In the past she has been a little tentative when s... CATHY NIXON She was so lovely, it hurt his chest to gaze at her, especially knowing she was courageous and cleve... MELANIE DICKERSON She was very smart, a really sharp kid -- she could have done anything she put her mind to. We calle... CONNIE KYRIACOU I heard a great story recently, I love telling it, of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson, she... SIR KEN ROBINSON It was by far just a one-girl show. She led every offensive and defensive category for Bishop Kearne... DAVE BARRY My mom said it's really cool, ice cream is really good, hamburgers are good, everything? From when s... TRACIE KAM He's right, she is our key. She understands her role very well, but she's also a scorer. She was a l... CHRIS RASO
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ELIZABETH GILBERT The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin... ELIZABETH GILBERT Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. ELIZABETH GILBERT There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in. ELIZABETH GILBERT In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need o... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think I deserve something beautiful. ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny i... ELIZABETH GILBERT Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. ELIZABETH GILBERT To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. ELIZABETH GILBERT When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m... ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an... ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit... ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio... ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou... ELIZABETH BOWEN Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa... ELIZABETH WILSON People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other... ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha... ELIZABETH JENNINGS It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili... ELIZABETH GASKELL Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. ELIZABETH SMART The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening... ELIZABETH HARDWICK He who angers you conquers you. ELIZABETH KENNY