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The town called her Buttercake in honor of her sweet cheeks and not the ones on her face.


Amy LaBonte

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ANONYMOUS Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the dis...
JOHN STEINBECK you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
RUPI KAUR Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowe...
BETH REVIS Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, ...
GILLIAN FLYNN She dreamed of autumn. Of chilly autumn winds and soft fall rains. She could even feel the cool mois...
GRACE WILLOWS To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fle...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER He rushed beyond the barrier and called to her to follow. He was shouted at to go on but he still ca...
JAMES JOYCE We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distin...
DR. JOHN DONNE No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had o...
ANN PATCHETT Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.
ALLY CARTER We've been fortunate to have found some places. We're real gypsies. Amy works hard on her own and sh...
DENNIS HARDESTY She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.<...
FRANCESCO PETRARCA And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on h...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am crushing so hard on Amy Schumer. Women like her who have chosen to stand up for themselves and ...
ANNE HATHAWAY Amy is a tremendous all-around player with excellent athletic ability. Her style of play, her energy...
DON HARDIN She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed he...
MAUD HART LOVELACE Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but s...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Her sweet smile which makes the sun shine so bright Her gorgeous eyes which bring the darker sides l...
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HENRY ROLLINS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It’s not her shape,
her face, or her hair
that makes her beautiful.
Neither is it t...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn't stop her expectations from rising. She imagined h...
CAMMIE MCGOVERN Amy will pitch 50 percent or more of our innings. Her pitches have been sharp and she has built her ...
KATHY ARENDSEN She smiled then, her cheeks red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thou...
LEIGH BARDUGO Amy Carter loved to bake her own cookies.
ROLAND MESNIER She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their dar...
CORMAC MCCARTHY There's something about her.
It's not her smile or grace,
It's not her beauty or race,
J.A. ANUM Her eyes were open, taking in my tired face... Her face twitched into what looked like a squinty smi...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart y...
GEORGETTE HEYER She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she doesn’t come ou...
MALORIE BLACKMAN When she is out of town I always call her to check up on her. I couldn't reach her, and it wasn't un...
LAUREN ASHLEY For the second time since meeting her, Echo looked as if I’d slapped her. Water pooled at the bott...
KATIE MCGARRY Very fortunate is that bride who focuses her consciousness on Him, her Lord s Love is so sweet to he...
GURU NANAK Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's fa...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape he...
RAY BRADBURY We wanted to deny her (Carr) the ball because her team feeds off her. I just stayed low, kept my han...
MALISA BUMPUS I likened her to the slender PSYCHÉ and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything ...
ROMAN PAYNE I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me w...
JOSEPH DELANEY Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF So Witch Baby played. Tossing her head, sucking in her cheeks and popping up with the impact of each...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother'...
BECK [How it ended: When Amy sent her friend Christmas cards in 2001 and 2002 and didn't hear back, she d...
AMY WILSON He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When...
CORNELIA FUNKE Her superiors called her in and said she was a management problem.
RICHARD RAINWATER He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the spac...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It was clear to her now, Happiness was a seductive illusion. No one as fucked up as her deserved one...
SOLANGE NICOLE Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing h...
SARA GRUEN I saw her in a jacket, weather was kinda cold, but her cheeks were still rosy - she had a warm soul.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight (Mysterious veil,...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seve...
BIBLE Amy has above-average speed, but I wouldn't consider her a power pitcher. The thing that makes her s...
DICK MANDELLA Her face was her chaperone.
RUPERT HUGHES Sweet the coming on / Of grateful evening mild; then silent night / With this her solemn bird and th...
JOHN MILTON For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, again...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.
ROBERT HERRICK She never let her illness get her down. I never once saw her without a smile on her face. She was so...
LEANN SCHMIDT His hands on the sides of her face, on her neck, holding her there. "Chessie...shit, Chessie, I love...
STACIA KANE The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her bac...
DALE CARNEGIE The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her bac...
DALE CARNEGIE she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor thi...
MARGARET D. NADAULD She just seemed so inconsolable on TV from the loss of her mother. It's nice to see her smile after ...
WENDELL HALL For all the way he loved her. Every song had her memory, every rain had her smell, and every girl ha...
AKSHAY VASU And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY He moved closer to her, his face just inches away from her. They stood motionless. Jason looked deep...
MARK A. COOPER He looked down into Lindsay's face, and her eyes were bright once more, her cheeks flushed....
...
SIERRA DONOVAN I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Love a woman, Not by her physical beauty And not the color of her skin, But love her what’s in her...
ALON CALINAO DY Her hair burst from her head like a fireworks shell erupting, framing her face in spray of red-blond...
DENNIS VICKERS The sisters' voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos tuned in childhood to the same pitch and ...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN Peaseblossom-decorous, proper Peaseblossom-dropped her trousers to waggle her naked, pale bottom at ...
LISA MANTCHEV Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds
JOHN MILTON I have to say that I feel (Amy) was such an obvious choice. Everything that she has stood for - in h...
ANDREW GLASSMAN I. At Tea

THE kettle descants in a cosy drone,
And the young wife looks in her husba...
THOMAS HARDY Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly i...
JENNIFER E. SMITH From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing h...
MARGARET ATWOOD But Amy Pond. Oh! The Sea had briefly been able to touch her mind — it knew that the Doctor was th...
JAMES GOSS A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She c...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI She had rouged her cheeks to a color otherwise seen only on specially ordered Pontiac Firebirds, and...
GEORGE V. HIGGINS No DNA material from any young man tested was present on the body of this complaining woman. Not pre...
WADE SMITH He kissed her as if he could breathe her in. Fierce kisses, hard ones, teasingly articulate ones, so...
LISA KLEYPAS It would be up to Amy and her parents to explore those opportunities. I've never met anyone so humbl...
LAURIE MONTAGUE That was my first kiss," she said. "My first real one."
He brought his head close, resting his ...
VERONICA ROSSI Islam exhorts men to respect and honor women. The status of the wife is so respected in Islam that i...
ANON. She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind o...
ROMAN PAYNE Her ear infections were so bad, they got into the bone and pinched off the nerves in her face.
JULIE MIKESELL 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 Josey?” She heard her mother’s voice in the hall, then the thud of her cane as she came closer. ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN “Tell her she's beautiful, not hot, remind her the good things she's done, not her mistakes, hug h...
ALFRED SANT Here's the promise that you will love her the way she needs to be loved. You will comfort her and su...
DON IMMEL You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't me...
HOLLY BLACK I love you,' cooed Fake Amy. 'You dance so much better than the Doctor.'
'Silly.' Real Amy nudg...
JAMES GOSS When the Guard convinced you fate was not on our side, you parted ways with me and saw fit to make m...
LEANNA RENEE HIEBER If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are exp...
AMY CARLSON Duende

I can't remember her name.
It's not as though I've been in bed
with that...
JACK GILBERT If you kiss her cheeks, she is your friend; if you kiss her lips, she is your lover; if you kiss her...
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AMY TAN It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
AMY TAN I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what ...
AMY TAN I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ...
AMY TAN I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to ...
AMY TAN There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being ri...
AMY TAN I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate obse...
AMY TAN My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's b...
AMY TAN I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
AMY TAN Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu...
AMY TAN I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the sam...
AMY TAN No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems fro...
AMY TAN I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what'...
AMY TAN Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...
AMY TAN God, life changes faster than you think.
AMY TAN A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them '...
AMY CHUA Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around...
AMY WINEHOUSE Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
AMY SEDARIS I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someo...
AMY SEDARIS You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y...
AMY SEDARIS I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak...
AMY SEDARIS I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
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