Edith Wharton
Related She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remem... MAHITA VAS LEO TOLSTOY NEIL GAIMAN STIEG LARSSON COCO J. GINGER E. LOCKHART JANE AUSTEN She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become t... ERICA BAUERMEISTER EDITH WHARTON She lived by herself and all she had was her Social Security. She made all the beads herself. DEBBIE DOOL Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the... ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE JESS C. SCOTT ROBERT MUSIL Go figure, that happened to be his same style of flirtation as well—annoy her half to death until,... KATHERINE MCINTYRE SARAH J. MAAS GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ARUNDHATI ROY D.H. LAWRENCE NICHOLAS SPARKS ITALO CALVINO AYN RAND ANNA GODBERSEN If she could take my strength. He put his hand on his chest, feeling his heartbeat. If she could hav... JAN HOLLY She had never been in love before. She'd tried to save herself the pain, but all her pretending and ... MELANIE DICKERSON She did emerge from her misery eventually, regained all the weight she had lost, and became her norm... DR. JESSICA JAHIEL CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE PAULO COELHO ANNA GODBERSEN EVELYN WAUGH PAULO COELHO MELINA MARCHETTA Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then th... MELVYNN BRAGG THOMM QUACKENBUSH She started off the season playing much more aggressive because she felt like she had to. She just g... ANTHONY HOUSTON BETTY SMITH NICHOLAS SPARKS MICHAEL ONDAATJE We had enough defensemen but not enough forwards and she seemed to be somebody who could make the mo... KRISTIN STEELE AMOS OZ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PAULO COELHO AKSHAY VASU She had the chance to protect Kelsey. Kelsey could still be alive if she had done her job as a paren... KATHIE BRIGGS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She was nine when she came in, and we had her several months. Her home life was not the best. She wa... BRENDA WEBB Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu... KATHLEEN TESSARO SAMANTHA YOUNG ALICE HOFFMAN LEO TOLSTOY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT AYN RAND LAUREN OLIVER But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love.PETER CAREY DAVID BERGEN Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had... PIP KARMEL He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and ki... JOE HILL She had gained weight, eating, feeling good about herself, looking forward to resuming her life and ... GREGORY REID KEN FOLLETT What exactly is it you'd like to know? [the book store manager asked]. He had an odd expression, lik... JENNIFER MCMAHON REGINA BRETT MICHAEL GRANT The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She... HAN KANG D.H. LAWRENCE She had to get 150 stitches. She had seven lacerations to her face. Her ear was literally cut off. DONNA HENDERSON You can give away parts of your soul to loving, but you must always reserve part of your soul for yo... KATIE MISHRA She got a very bad feeling about him and had to walk away - she could not listen to him, ... I think... GEORGE PETERSON She got a very bad feeling about him and had to walk away -- she could not listen to him, ... I thin... GEORGE PETERSON HOLLY BLACK DOROTHY L. SAYERS JEAN-LUC GODARD SARAH J. MAAS She had a lot of goals she put herself to. She always met them. JUDITH TERRAZAS We gave the woman for her trouble a generous fee, with which she was highly pleased, and proceeded t... HELEN JOSEPHINE SANBORN ANTHONY POWELL Annie, who up until this very day had always felt like a child--which is why she could not marry, sh... ELIZABETH STROUT PAULO COELHO She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt li... LISA JEWELL At some point, she didn't know when or for how long, she found herself lost, lost in a song. Her eye... JAMES MORRIS They were not her children, she had no idea who they were, but they had attached to her, and she had... BIANCA WALKER ORHAN PAMUK THOMAS HARDY ELIZABETH GASKELL STACIA KANE If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in sh... AMANDA LANCE If she wanted this man to trust her, to open up to her, she would have to strip every last piece of ... DIANNA HARDY Mrs. Jones had received a lot of injuries to her body, all over her body. She had over 60 wounds. Th... JOE WARD She couldn’t walk away from him again. Her heart couldn’t take it and she didn’t think his cou... KATIE REUS I asked her how much she had to drink, and she replied that she had a couple of beers. BILL KELLY She never opened her mail in the middle of the day. Sometimes she forgot about it for a week or more... NICCI FRENCH Growing up she had become used to allowing men the ability to curve themselves into question marks a... R. Y.S. PEREZ Absently, she brushed back some of the hair from her face, and she saw as Jaguar's eyes followed how... AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES If she had done the floor routine she'd done last week she would have gotten a 9.8, but we needed he... BILL RYDEN PHILIPPA GREGORY IAN MCEWAN KAGE BAKER JOHN GREEN KIMBERLY DERTING MARCEL PROUST
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BILL WHARTON The risk of anyone else being positive for it is very low. BILL WHARTON The board has told Mr. Boyd that they much appreciate all of his services. Unfortunately, his positi... BILL WHARTON He also has very good stroke mechanics, and much like Molly doesn't like to lose. They have it in th... DAVE WHARTON Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting. DENNIS WHARTON This is only a piece of the solution, and represents a transparent attempt by both cable operators a... DENNIS WHARTON At the convention we've got almost 113,000 people from all walks of communication. The industry now ... DENNIS WHARTON We can't remain stagnant. Look what happened to television, the Internet. Everything changes. DENNIS WHARTON We believe satellite radio companies were licensed for national radio programming services exclusive... DENNIS WHARTON Most TV and radio stations view the Internet as an opportunity to enhance their service to listeners... DENNIS WHARTON We think of broadcast TV as a lifeline in a time of emergency. A lot of the people broadcast TV serv... DENNIS WHARTON We've said we would accept a hard date and get spectrum back to public safety. DENNIS WHARTON Surveys we have seen suggest parents are using them. DENNIS WHARTON Most people would recognize that broadcast programming is far less explicit in terms of sex and viol... DENNIS WHARTON We're going into a tough part of our season. We've got five tough games coming up, starting with Cri... BRUCE WHARTON If we play that hard, with that intensity, we can be in most games. Even if we had lost this game, I... BRUCE WHARTON I think we kind of let up defensively. The first quarter we played full man-to-man. The guys maybe g... BRUCE WHARTON The request and reservation forms are available online on our Web site. DAVE WHARTON She's very talented. She can work hard and she loves to race. She loves the relays and loves being p... DAVE WHARTON Molly had a great day and really stood out. DAVE WHARTON I don't believe in shutting down practices just to win meets. Some people live and breath by dual me... DAVE WHARTON She's just an all-around swimmer. We try to utilize her wherever we have any weak points in the meet... 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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
Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... 
It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but... 
When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she ha... 
Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too larg... 
although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did ... 
Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a... 
She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She u... 
Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she consider... 
In her misery she read a great deal, and discovered that she had lost something she had previously n... 
Aelin had promised herself, months and months ago, that she would not pretend to be anything but wha... 
But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t... 
She gave the impression that she had somehow slipped off her leash. As though she was taking herself... 
She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her. 
Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... 
And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able t... 
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which ... 
It had been too much for Edith to take and she had gone to her room so that her nieces wouldn't see ... 
She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not ... 
She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making ... 
Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could ... 
...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to h... 
Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always... 
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf. 
Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 
That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a du... 
She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... 
She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had ge... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ... 
Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ... 
there were moments throughout the whole day when she had to shake herself because she found her thou... 
He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling... 
The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l... 
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console ... 
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view... 
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told h... 
She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come tru... 
She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... 
My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started... 
Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing.
She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all.
That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood... 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
She had lied to him. She had wanted to save lives, yes. But she had gone out there with no intention... 
Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial-... 
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effort... 
Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi... 
How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for w... 
Just what she needed. More filth in her soul. Someday, maybe, she would explode from it, someday may... 
Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit... 
She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundam... 
A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady... 
She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... 
But she let herself think of Jay. And of the kiss. And suddenly the damp chill that had been clingin... 
It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, ... 
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. 
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. 
As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac... 
What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th... 
I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age. 
The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th... 
All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself... 
A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un... 
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever... 
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous... 
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...