Lauren Oliver quote: "That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories."

She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for for...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on he...
RACHEL KUSHNER

She hugged herself and told herself that she was brave, and she almost believed herself [...]
NEIL GAIMAN

She lived by herself and all she had was her Social Security. She made all the beads herself.
DEBBIE DOOL

She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE

The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l...
LEO TOLSTOY

Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever...
ALICE MUNRO

although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did ...
E. LOCKHART

She was experiencing some personal reversals and was upset and found herself doing what she did.
MARIANNE PASHA

She told me that the people in her head were telling her what to do. (Then) she rolled over and s...
DONA BAILEY

Oh yeah. It was a little black gun she had in her hand. I saw that. Just as clear as can be. And she...
BARB BRUSSEAU

She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing...
IAN MCEWAN

But as she continued and finished her tale, I could tell that her heart was elsewhere, and when she ...
KELLY BARNHILL

I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a p...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the...
ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE

She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was no...
TONI MORRISON

Fuck, she was so sick of herself—herself and her fucking emotional retardation. How did people do ...
STACIA KANE

She was a lovely person who involved herself with other seniors. She was very interested in what was...
CYNTHIA LEE

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew hersel...
ANN BRASHARES

The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,...
PAUL BOWLES

Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did...
LEO TOLSTOY

Often, as she leafed through the sticky, plastic-coated pages, spotting herself with a frizzy perm o...
STEWART O'NAN

Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand...
CASSANDRA CLARE

At some point, she didn't know when or for how long, she found herself lost, lost in a song. Her eye...
JAMES MORRIS

Fuck, she was so sick of herself-herself and her fucking emotional retardation. How did people do th...
STACIA KANE

there were moments throughout the whole day when she had to shake herself because she found her thou...
SAMANTHA YOUNG

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels t...
ANNA GODBERSEN

Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she consider...
JESS C. SCOTT

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making ...
PAULO COELHO

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is mean...
JOHN BERGER

It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but...
NEIL GAIMAN

She was a grown-up, divorced woman now, on her own. She'd gotten herself this far, she could get her...
CAROL GRACE

She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ...
ALICE MUNRO

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing on everything she was, a p...
ROBYN SCHNEIDER

When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she i...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN

She was depressed. I told her to calm herself down.
JAVIER GARCIA

She called herself Starla, Queen of the Nile, and she had me from the first moment I saw her walk on...
EMMA ROSE KRAUS

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER

She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind o...
ROMAN PAYNE

A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of he...
JOHN BERGER

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.
D.H. LAWRENCE

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

I don't want any promises, I won't have false hopes, I won't be romantic about myself. I can't live ...
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

In one swift motion she’s out of his arms twirling about. Startled and then ecstatic, she feels li...
SOLANGE NICOLE

She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Th...
CASSANDRA CLARE

I hope you find your truth and when you do, you stand in the middle of it strong, beautiful and nimb...
SASHA GRAHAM

She gave the impression that she had somehow slipped off her leash. As though she was taking herself...
ARUNDHATI ROY

What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward...
BLUE BALLIETT

But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able t...
ITALO CALVINO

She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her...
AYN RAND

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful thi...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

Emma convinced herself she'd lost him because she was fast. She was also adept at convincing herself...
KRESLEY COLE

She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become t...
ERICA BAUERMEISTER

If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have bel...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN

Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always...
PAULO COELHO

That was big and that's what Camille can do. She's a great defensive player. Earlier in the season, ...
ANTHONY SMITH

She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular p...
PAULO COELHO

….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since ...
LAURIE MATTHEW

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
EDITH WHARTON

Tee knew she was staring, but she just couldn’t seem to stop herself. Why couldn’t she stop hers...
ALLY FLEMING

She didn’t have a good reason for most of what she did. Mostly, she went by what seemed right in t...
JOSEPH FINK

She said, 'I told him that I was going to leave.' She was uneasy. She wasn't herself.
BERNADETTE MCELROY

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?
EDWARD KITSIS AND ADAM HOROWITZ

I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same...
DAN CHAON

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

We miss her. She had a happy life ... she was at a point in her life where she was comfortable with ...
AMY URIELL

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was sudd...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

I was right there on launch pad 39B, looking up at those grand towers thinking about my teacher and ...
ANDY VIOLETTE

She was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fort...
HENRY JAMES

She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and ...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ

She was the one holding the thing together. She was very certain of her herself.
ALEX PANTAROTTO

She is a rare soul, she has this infectious energy that makes you want to run next to her, she belon...
NIKKI ROWE

Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scra...
ERICA LORRAINE SCHEIDT

I came over and she told me she was planning to admit herself the next day, ... I was kind of taken ...
ANNE SEXTON

Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and...
ANNA GODBERSEN

A sharp pain in her chest became more intoxicating with each breath she took. There it was. The reas...
COURTNEY GIARDINA

She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. ...
JODI PICOULT

She's just come undone," her mother had whispered on the phone to her aunt Bella. It was an old coll...
KARIN SLAUGHTER

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried...
STIEG LARSSON

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a supe...
AYN RAND

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console ...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

Karou was mysterious. She had no apparent family, she never talked about herself, and she was expert...
LAINI TAYLOR

She knew she was overextended, but she couldn't help herself. Student, tree lover, citizen of the Ea...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN

Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure...
STACIA KANE

No child understands how well she knows her parents' faces, how much they tell her without speaking;...
CATHERINE LACEY

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herse...
KATE CHOPIN

I guess it’s time.”
While Cress’s thoughts continued to churn through the horrible things...
MARISSA MEYER

Morfyd’s care.
As she walked out of the cave she passed Annwyl walking in. The girl had her s...
G.A. AIKEN

She talked to them and told them she would turn herself in.
MARGARET COLEMAN

Celaena walked and walked, until she found herself by the tree-lined shore of a lake, glaringly brig...
SARAH J. MAAS

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t...
ANAIS NIN

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t...
ANAïS NIN

She had never been in love before. She'd tried to save herself the pain, but all her pretending and ...
MELANIE DICKERSON

Aelin had promised herself, months and months ago, that she would not pretend to be anything but wha...
SARAH J. MAAS

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free...
MARGARET SANGER

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself fr...
MARGARET SANGER

When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy whistled at her out of a car window when sh...
LEIGH BARDUGO

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