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Related Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh... MARIE RUTKOSKI In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha... D.H. LAWRENCE The love she felt was so hard that she had to squeeze him to her until her arms were tired. CARSON MCCULLERS Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;
Earth felt the w... JOHN MILTON Loving her was a labyrinth of entanglement. Just when you felt you were breaking through, she would ... LAUREN VALENCIA She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a ... LILY KING She said she was going to get us there. They left her open and she felt it. RANDY WAGONER Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me." "Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, b... RICK RIORDAN All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that h... LEO TOLSTOY She felt she was ready to go. Her caregiver, she told her she loved her and said to tell everyone el... JAMES ROGERS …always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comf... L.M. MONTGOMERY And all at once I knew how Margo Roth Spiegelman felt when she wasn't being Margo Roth Spiegelman: s... JOHN GREEN Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN So now the sky was falling. Maybe the end of the world. Maybe Jesus coming again. That s... MARY CONNEALY She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let s... CHRISTINE FEEHAN When she quieted the jet engine buzz of worries assaulting her brain, when she stopped thinking alto... ERIN MCCARTHY She wasn't entirely sure how she felt, All she knew was that he entered her world And sh... NIKKI ROWE He knelt down beside her and slowly rubbed a soft, muculent mix on her bare skin like a sculptor at ... MIRETTE BAGHAT She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the ... GAIL CARRIGER She had always loved the stars. But tonight, she felt as if they were watching her, waiting for her ... SASHA ALSBERG She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her last... ANTHONY LICCIONE She hates playing bad. She went through a time there when she really struggled with her putting and ... JULI INKSTER The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings... CANDACE BUSHNELL They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting thi... VIRGINIA WOOLF In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; ... THOMAS HARRIS As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had n... PAULO COELHO Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She ... ANN BRASHARES Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i... GREGORY MAGUIRE In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonge... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE She'd had a similar accident but survived. She told me that as she was crashing she felt no fear or ... CAROL BARNES If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross o... ANDREW WILSON Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smi... LYNNE RAE PERKINS Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ... PHILIP PULLMAN She had it all going for her. She was very popular, she was a great student from a great family, and... J. TYLER MAKEPEACE When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. BIBLE Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the... CORNELIA FUNKE That was the thing about her. When you told her about an incident where you so badly screwed up, hal... SANHITA BARUAH When Friedan came to Smith in the fall of 1938 from a provincial town in Illinois, she was not very ... DANIEL HOROWITZ I made one for a woman, and she was hugging it, wrapping herself in it and saying how good it felt. ... CATHERINE GIRGENTI She placed her arms and hands strategically over the areas of her body that she felt uncomfortable w... TRACEY-ANNE MCCARTNEY She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them an... STEPHEN M. IRWIN She felt one thousand years old. She also felt like maybe she was a condescending brat. She wanted h... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... BETTY SMITH But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see t... SHANNON HALE On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight in... JHUMPA LAHIRI Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. Sh... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her... AYN RAND She walked around the edge of the table to position her next shot. As she pulled her cue back she wa... ERIN NICHOLAS When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH She did not think it was love. She did not think it was love when she felt a curious ache and anxiet... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... STIEG LARSSON She felt so guilty she couldn't care for her. BETH PETERSON She slid a sideways glance in his direction, trying to figure out just what it was that was making h... KIMBERLY DERTING She was perfectly sane in streets unknown. She loved conversing with people tagged as strangers. She... DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just ... KEVYN AUCOIN Elza needed challenges in her life, needed to be occupied. Without walls to climb or windmills to at... MARC FITTEN Elza needed challenges in her life, needed to be occupied. Without walls to climb or windmills to at... MARK FITTER Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tac... JEAN RHYS When someone dies they can be any age you remember can't they ' she asked. As I tried to think of a ... ROSAMUND LUPTON What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ... JERRY SPINELLI I saw her when she was born. I carried her when she was born. I carried her when she died. I saw her... EDWIN REYES But as she continued and finished her tale, I could tell that her heart was elsewhere, and when she ... KELLY BARNHILL When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She sto... ANN BRASHARES Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL Celaena walked and walked, until she found herself by the tree-lined shore of a lake, glaringly brig... SARAH J. MAAS She was incredibly responsible in the workplace, [but] she was incredibly socially immature. Greg [S... LINDA WOJAS Her freshman year, she played sporadically. She was about 6-1 her freshman year so she's grown her l... BETH BAYLY I think she would say her life was a gift, and ... basically the most important thing about her is s... FC DALLAS And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the cir... ANTHONY LICCIONE 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 was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She f... ROBERT M. DRAKE For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was ... MIRANDA JULY When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes. COLETTE How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying s... OTTO FRANK ...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dr... PAUL HOFFMAN She wasn’t broken. She was made up of a thousand tiny little cracks. She was always tryi... JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, s... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER When he nodded, the physician disappeared into thin air, and then a moment later, Payne felt a warm ... J.R. WARD It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died... HANK SNOW A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady... KAGE BAKER He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling... ALICE HOFFMAN She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he... BERNARDO BATIZ So she (James) got mad at me because she felt like I was treating her like a thief. KELLY RYAN What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. JERRY SPINELLI She had been waiting for someone to notice her, like, really notice her. She felt that that was the ... ROSE FALL When a woman is convinced that she can stop the violence in her marriage, her stubborn determination... SUSAN WEITZMAN Once Doc got an idea in her head that she was going to do something, you didn't stop her. She had th... ED HARRIS Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, sh... SARAH J. MAAS She kept her head about her, she kept her wits about her, she was observant, she paid attention, she... ROB DAVIS One day she felt weak and was admitted but the doctors found nothing wrong with her. Still, she was ... ANDREW TAN She remembers rehearsals. Wrong notes turning to right ones, dissonance becoming harmony. She re... KATHRYN HOLMES She was very good as a freshman, and then the latter part of her career her golf took a turn for the... DAN BROOKS It had been too much for Edith to take and she had gone to her room so that her nieces wouldn't see ... ANNA GODBERSEN She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesnt she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left h... TERRY BROOKS She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... MERVYN PEAKE Their eyes met at the same instant moment, Therese glancing up from a box she was opening, and the w... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did... HEATHER CASEY Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when sh... EVANGELINE WALTON She almost never left her bedroom, and when she did she was nude or wearing a silk tunic with nothin... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
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EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous... EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am... EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a... EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki... EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from. EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki... EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf... EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min... EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b... EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be... EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ... EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin... EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow. EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit... EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ... EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr... EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo... EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'... EDITH PEARLMAN