Alexander McCall Smith
Related People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... NEIL GAIMAN C.S. LEWIS She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, se... SHANNON CELEBI The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER MARISSA MEYER NEIL GAIMAN MAYA ANGELOU MAX LUCADO ARUNDHATI ROY All her friends told her she is crazy, that she should sell it on eBay. But she said that giving it ... GLORIA SWIFT Her personality kind of sucks, ... The one thing that she has is her cuteness, and she picks up on t... MENA SUVARI 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 PHILIP PULLMAN PRISCILLA GLENN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS AYN RAND She was like a sheet anchor sometimes, a steadying influence on him, on everyone around her. Made pe... TIM WINTON CRAIG GROESCHEL His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL I'm not surprised that people like the puzzle -- I thought that was almost certain. I am surprised a... WAYNE GOULD CASSANDRA CLARE So one time I said to her that she should stop reading it, because it was just depressing, so she wa... M.T. ANDERSON GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I think the fact that he now has a stepmother who probably is very kind to him is a settling factor.... BROOKS BAKER C.S. LEWIS It took her about 45 years to do it, but she turned him around. Now she's gone to be with him. LISA HALL CRAIG GROESCHEL JODI PICOULT CARSON MCCULLERS GEORGETTE HEYER The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be c... RENé DESCARTES I think every teacher should be like her because she makes it so fun. DEBRA WILLIAMSON He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of di... WILLIAM TREVOR (She) tells him that she loves him, tells him that she wants to be with him again sexually, so she d... BARBARA MATTHEWS NICHOLAS SPARKS HEBREW PROVERB LEO TOLSTOY NEIL GAIMAN This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed... JANE BOWLES CASSANDRA CLARE In their own brief conversations, he had the distinct impression that she was toying with him, verba... DIANA J. OAKS She was turned on by him— his scent, his smile; he was the manifestation of seduction. Under norma... NORIAN F. LOVE DEYTH BANGER GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ NEIL GAIMAN Dr. Lee wanted to be a 100 percent certain that nothing could change. It was 99.9 percent, but she w... TONY RASMUS An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing a... MARIE RUTKOSKI LEIGH BARDUGO DONALD MILLER She hadn’t needed him to escape that place. But rather than making him angry, it only made him pro... D.B. REYNOLDS L.J. SMITH I ... RAYMOND CHANDLER KRISTEN STEWART CASSANDRA CLARE Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who w... COURTNEY CAROLA CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE The first quality about her that struck me was that she always took care of everyone. It was not jus... FELICIA LONDRE MELINA MARCHETTA ...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dr... PAUL HOFFMAN The problem with a lot of Indian boys and girls is that they do not approach their partner, they are... APURVA GAGLANI JODI PICOULT Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credi... BARRY HUMPHRIES HARUKI MURAKAMI KARIN SLAUGHTER Plus, ... her defense has improved. She's never been one of my quickest players, but she plays with ... CATHERINE YOUNG Do you like flowers, Lady Eleanor?"MEGAN FRAMPTON That's what got her, of course. That everyone thought it so unbelievable that she could possibly att... JO LEIGH RALPH WALDO EMERSON JAMIE MCGUIRE Her heart unfolded in her chest, took in all of him, and closed tightly, unwilling to let him go JUSTINE DELL Hot, hard and so thick that her fingertips didn't meet when she closed her hand around him. MELJEAN BROOK WAYNE GRETZKY DOROTHY L. SAYERS That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. ... ANDRA DAY KIMBERLY DERTING RACHEL CAINE KURT VONNEGUT ROBERT M. DRAKE DIANA GABALDON LEO TOLSTOY J.K. ROWLING EDITH WHARTON DEYTH BANGER It is better the law should be certain, than that every Judge should speculate upon improvements in ... JOHN SCOTT He is so beautiful," she thought, aching from the sadness that she saw in his eyes. In the late-afte... SHIRA ANTHONY PABLO NERUDA There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to re-live, certain kinds of conne... JEFF VANDERMEER CARSON MCCULLERS I see why people think it should be held at Ebenezer. But one thing Mrs. King was about was change. ... LYNN COTHREN I wasn't surprised at all. I knew she had it in her to play that good. I was happy for her. CORPERRYALE HARRIS I know subconsciously how my dad would attack certain offenses, all that kind of stuff, ... Dad was ... REX RYAN JANE AUSTEN He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everythin... CELESTE NG JENNIFER BROWN J.D. ROBB HENRY JAMES MARCEL PROUST
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She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow... 
A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her. 
You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...
He was the fantasy of every girl in the country. He was so far out of realm, her world, that she sho... 
A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. 
A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. 
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... 
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... 
Hey, Lauren?” he called, and she stopped so abruptly her bag slid off her shoulder. She caught it ... 
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... 
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
Will,” she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache... 
What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love. 
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do ... 
The love she felt was so hard that she had to squeeze him to her until her arms were tired. 
She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart y... 
She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the begin... 
God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she sh... 
But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an ef... 
He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and... 
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... 
Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery ... 
His knuckles brushed against her skin and lightning cracked through him, left him paralyzed, rooted ... 
I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will... 
She knew, then, that it had not been hatred that had made him avoid her for so long. No, it had not ... 
Mr Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I... 
You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can... 
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kiss... 
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
After such prolonged frowning, it took her some moments to recall what her normal face even looked l... 
She's just come undone," her mother had whispered on the phone to her aunt Bella. It was an old coll... 
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight h... 
You have to be patient with him. Travis doesn't remember much about it, but he was close to his mom,... 
We didn't get into it, other than she was concerned about Rick and she felt that it was a tough situ... 
Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, c... 
He loved her.
Her hands brushed Shane's, and he let go of the cards and took hold.
Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... 
It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do eve... 
I feel maybe like you did,” he whispered to her, too low to wake her. “When ye came through the ... 
Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... 
Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard, blazing look in her face as... 
This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she... 
So that you will hear me
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Eve woke, violently aroused. It was Roarke’s hands on her. She knew their texture, their rhythm. H... 
...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any... 
And at once I fell in love with her, for if it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she ... 
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. 
Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have t... 
Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to creat... 
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.