What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing. The bargain was already in force. Days and years and feelings much the same, except that the children would grow up, and there might be one or two more of them and they too would grow up, and she and Brendan would grow older and then old. It was not until now, not until this moment, that she had seen so clearly that she was counting on something happening, something which would change her life. She had accepted her marriage as one big change, but not as the last one. So, nothing now but what she or anybody else could sensibly foresee. That was to be her happiness, that was what she had bargained for, nothing secret, or strange. Pay attention to this, she thought. She had a dramatic notion of getting down on her knees. This is serious... It was a long time ago that this happened. In North Vancouver, when they lived in the Post and Beam house. When she was twenty-four years old and new to bargaining.
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When she saw it she thought of him, shot and crumpling, the way hi... CASSANDRA CLARE All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was... J.M. BARRIE The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She... HAN KANG Eena turned aside, breathing shallowly as her mind raced with questions. She was glad he couldn’t ... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. .... PETER CAREY But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... ANN PATCHETT The Story of the Woman with Three Brothers" A woman once had three brothers. They all had... LISA SEE She would get more excited and show more emotion when she would make the pass and earn an assist or ... KATHLEEN SINRAM In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha... D.H. 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AYN RAND She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular p... PAULO COELHO Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She... LATIKA TEOTIA Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... LEO TOLSTOY Thirrin could be charming when she forgot to be a princess. But just recently that happened only rar... STUART HILL When she was 12 years old, the furthest they would stand from her was about three to four feet. They... GARY GILCHRIST There was a young girl named Ratchet. She had skill and no one could match it. She wanted ... NANCY J. CAVANAUGH I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined ... GILLIAN FLYNN It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to s... CARSON MCCULLERS She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, ye... JERRY SPINELLI You are so much more than I bargained for,” I confessed, which gained her attention. “I knew I w... C.A. HARMS It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quit... CHARLES DICKENS She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of m... STEPHEN KING In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no... J.R. WARD Her own awareness had risen like the dawn on her back.Like a leaden sunrise veiled in a swirl of sto... RENEE AHDIEH She narrowed her eyes at him. She wanted to tell him that it was his fault, that she would ne... KIMBERLY DERTING My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while s... MARY LAWSON There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And w... 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ALICE WALKER I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. ALICE SEBOLD My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ... ALICE BRAGA What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int... ALICE MCDERMOTT You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi... ALICE COOPER If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo... ALICE WALKER How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th... ALICE WALKER We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. ALICE BLOCH Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style. ALICE TEMPERLEY I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am... ALICE POTTER I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys... ALICE ENGLERT I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If every... ALICE BRAGA The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any ALICE WALKER Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. ALICE WALKER Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you... ALICE WALKER I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre... ALICE WALKER I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some... ALICE WALKER It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth... ALICE KOLLER The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. ALICE COOPER In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,... ALICE WALKER I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ... ALICE MILLER The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro... ALICE WALKER She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch... ALICE WALKER The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. ALICE WALKER For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t... ALICE WALKER A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of ye... ALICE MEYNELL Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ... ALICE WALKER The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe... ALICE JAMES It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr... ALICE WALKER One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ... ALICE JAMES The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter. ALICE MEYNELL Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because... ALICE LOWE We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition. ALICE MOORE These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al... ALICE MOORE I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask. ALICE MOORE We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo... ALICE MOORE Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ... ALICE MOORE We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t... ALICE MOORE Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ... ALICE MOORE The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace. ALICE MOORE The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to... ALICE MILLER The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu... ALICE MILLER ,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ... ALICE MILLER