Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.
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It was the perfect excuse for you to talk to the... N. R. WALKER I love you," he said. She looked up at him, her eyes shiny and black, then looked away. "... RAINBOW ROWELL I can’t even handle love, there’s no way I can handle it being taken away. I won’t survive it.... B.J. NOVAK You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't me... HOLLY BLACK It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her... ANN BRASHARES Her hands brushed Shane's, and he let go of the cards and took hold. And then somehow she... RACHEL CAINE The Death Eaters were waiting for us,” Harry told her. “We were surrounded the moment we took of... J.K. ROWLING [T.J.] Without thinking, I held them out to her. She stopped laughing, and looked at me like she was... TRACEY GARVIS-GRAVES Do you think you might be able to love me someday?" He asked and heard her laugh softly. ... JASMINE DUBROFF Your fangs are showing, Miss Lyndon." "Are they?" she asked, reaching up to touch her fac... JULIA QUINN There is something of yours I would like to return to you." "What?" He leaned across the d... HOLLY BLACK M-O-T-H-E-R M is for the million things she gave me, O means only that she's growing old, T... HOWARD JOHNSON Tell me about the farm," she pleaded as drops of blood began to appear on her hand. "The farm?... MELINA MARCHETTA I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always sear... ANN BRASHARES Lillian tells everyone about her flaws," Daisy said, her brown eyes twinkling. "She's proud of them.... LISA KLEYPAS He grasped her by the wrist , running a thumb along the sensitive skin underneath. "Then let me call... SARAH J. MAAS She sat up, cheeks flushed and golden hair tousled. She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache. ... RICHELLE MEAD Ashryver eyes met her own, and she touched the face that was the other side of her fair coin. ... SARAH J. MAAS There was too much between them to think of any type of future. Yet, with him standing in front of h... LAVERNE ST. GEORGE Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials and ideas?" She can be anyt... SARAH DESSEN She knew it was time, What for was the mystery but focused; she remained. She turne... NIKKI ROWE And I understand my sisters when they say every woman has a story that's been told a maxim of one so... MARK GONZALES A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never l... NICHOLAS SPARKS My feeling is that in her mind that if she meets people, they expect her to jump up and sing and dan... CARL BRUNO He seems to be supporting her tenderly. But what holds them together is difficult to pin down. ... BARBARA BROWNING We took her into the doctor, and at first they didn't know what was wrong. She went down so quick in... LORI AFRIDI she decided no human man would ever touch her again. the doors to her body and heart were already lo... DIANNE SYLVAN How you doing, Helena?" she asked quietly. "Not so good, Alley." The wounded trooper's vo... DAVID WEBER There once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw ... JANDY NELSON What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... ALICE MUNRO What do you want to show me?" "Nothing, really. I just want to be alone with you for a mi... RAINBOW ROWELL She was just very supportive, and I thank her for that. I know a lot of people think it would have b... JODI OLSON Where have you been?" she cried. "Damn you, where have you been?" She took a few steps toward Schmen... PETER S. BEAGLE One of them has to break,” the queen said to the princess. “Only then can it begin.” SARAH J. MAAS There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now. VIKRAM SETH Scully nodded. Of course. It made sense. Complete sense. No question about it. Mulder was perfectly ... LES MARTIN Who shall tell the lady's grief When her Cat was past relief? Who shall number the hot tea... CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You ... EMMY LAYBOURNE Dimitri is dead," she said. It was a statement, not a question, but she was looking to m... RICHELLE MEAD There are too many of them." Reyna wondered bitterly how many times she'd said that in her demigod c... RICK RIORDAN So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me. "Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie." SARAH DESSEN I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me t... INGRID BETANCOURT The Story of the Woman with Three Brothers" A woman once had three brothers. They all had... LISA SEE Circenn moved swiftly, intending to catch the tear upon his finger, kiss it away, then kiss away all... KAREN MARIE MONING Those were the three words seldom asked to her. Yet, she knew they hold a healing power i... SANHITA BARUAH The car came opposite her, and she curtsied so low that recovery was impossible, and she sat down in... E.F. BENSON She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... ALICE MUNRO Peter..." He straightened, his back to her like a wall. Then, slowly, he turned his face toward... SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT She's Devine. She's Magic. And she didn't have to wait for anyone to tell her in order fo... C.R. BITTAR The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly.... SARAH DESSEN When warm weather came, Baby Suggs, holy, followed by every black man, woman, and child who could ma... TONI MORRISON With the little energy I had, I tried to swim to the surface. 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BETTY HILL And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along. BETTY HILL And that's how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, ... BETTY HILL And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one... BETTY HILL Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get. BETTY HILL A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland. BETTY HILL 15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall. BETTY HILL This whole evening has been a once in a lifetime opportunity for Shelbyville. I'm thankful for the c... BETTY HARRISON This whole evening has been a once in a lifetime opportunity for Shelbyville, ... I'm thankful for t... BETTY HARRISON Because the world has gone this way, we would be foolish not to give our kids access to these machin... BETTY HARRISON I have no evidence anyone is doing any more substantial research because they're on the Internet tha... BETTY HARRISON You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tigh... BETTY GRABLE With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world. BETTY GRABLE The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. BETTY GRABLE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g... BETTY GRABLE I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents. BETTY GRABLE There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them. BETTY GRABLE The glorification of the ""'woman's role,"" then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance ... BETTY FRIEDAN Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were al... BETTY FRIEDAN Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength BETTY FRIEDAN When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy bei... BETTY FRIEDAN The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. BETTY FORD Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help. BETTY FORD My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle... BETTY FORD It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you have... BETTY FORD It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old.... BETTY FORD Have a nice trip, Dick. BETTY FORD The process turns you off, and it's got to where I don't even know who's lying and who's telling the... BETTY FORD If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to ... BETTY DODSON If we all talked honestly about what's really happening in our sex lives, we'd realise that we're al... BETTY DODSON