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Related She knew she was in love with him. She loved everything about him too. He was more than a fantasy. F... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG She missed him. And she was scared, deep down, because she felt him pulling away from her, and even ... HARRIET EVANS …she was afraid of how he made her feel, because he made her feel way too much JUSTINE DELL He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had p... CHRISTINE FEEHAN It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to s... CARSON MCCULLERS 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 suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK She found out he was two-timing on her. She told me some time ago she was going to kill him. I wasn'... BERNICE JAMISON He can guess, but he won't ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everythin... CELESTE NG It was once him and her, but she lost him and thought for a long time she wanted him back more then ... AMBER Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even tho... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK She'd started swimming early in the morning, when the kids were asleep, when she thought he was asle... ERIKA SWYLER She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... CASSANDRA CLARE She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would li... NICHOLAS SPARKS Thirrin could be charming when she forgot to be a princess. But just recently that happened only rar... STUART HILL She wanted to write to him. Tell him she was glad he was back, that he was alive, that he was home a... COCO J. GINGER He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. ... PHILIPPA GREGORY But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was ... NICHOLAS SPARKS He was ruining it. Five minutes before, he’d looked at her with desire and she’d thought finally... ARIELLE HUDSON She watched him, her head angled. He sometimes felt that she looked at him the way a cat regards a m... SARAH J. MAAS She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a ... LILY KING He was pulling her in because he was afraid she was going to fall out. FRANK CASSIDY She saw in his eyes that he knew she was thinking about him. She liked the fact that he knew it, and... NICHOLAS SPARKS But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. .... PETER CAREY You would not even know that anything had happened to them. Kaylan has mentioned her mother a couple... RICHARD HARRIMAN She remembers the last perfect evening before everything happened, perfect even though she didn�... KATHRYN HOLMES She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with the... RICK RIORDAN Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the begin... NICHOLAS SPARKS Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... STIEG LARSSON She was amazed. I was afraid of how she would take it, but it was a great moment to be able to help ... RICK ADAMS If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in sh... AMANDA LANCE Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared no... PETER CAREY Even now, even as she faced a lifetime with him, she thought of her sisters. She was legions too goo... SARAH MACLEAN She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In ... NEVIL SHUTE An unspoken rivalry threaded their relationship, in which Tiger Lily thought that if she could keep ... JODI LYNN ANDERSON And for about the millionth time in her life she felt an overwhelming gratitude for her best friend.... ROB THOMAS Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... BETTY SMITH She was furious with him and couldn't believe he would take the car without first asking her. If he ... SHARON ANDERSON Her biggest fear was that Flynn would walk away before she could even start to worry about him not c... BRYNN KELLY We didn't get into it, other than she was concerned about Rick and she felt that it was a tough situ... WAYNE GRETZKY Sometimes Coraline would forget who she was while she was daydreaming that she was exploring the Arc... NEIL GAIMAN In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he... AYN RAND Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL 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 He was her first. She loved him, and she honestly thought that they would spend the rest of their li... VALENCIYA LYONS She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake... MARIE RUTKOSKI I was worried that if I told her the story, she would identify with it too much. That her sympathy, ... OLIVIA SUDJIC He was her life. She loved that boy, did everything for him. She never said a word about him being v... AUTRAULIA HARRIS The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to G... DONALD MILLER She came here to change her life, to get her daughter back -- that was what was real and pure in her... ANDREW LLOYD Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, ha... CHARLES DICKENS She shoots the ball so well. She can shoot the outside shot, she can shoot the 3. ... Teams would so... SONYA BERZETT she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surp... JODI PICOULT They did really adventurous traveling together. She talked about that. She talked about what a great... ANNETTE BENING Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she... MATT TOMERLIN She looked at me, and even though she couldn't talk I could see in her eyes that she was trying to a... BECKY HOLLAND How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she... CASSANDRA CLARE That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her al... NICHOLAS SPARKS In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha... D.H. LAWRENCE He didn't hit her, but he destroyed everything she had. I don't know if she even realized it was abu... DARLENE MCINTOSH She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somew... C. JOYBELL C. Michael,” she whispered, wishing he would kiss her. “I love the way you say my name. You’re th... SARAH MACLEAN You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't me... HOLLY BLACK And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he ... J.K. ROWLING She came up with some huge three-pointers, the kids got her the ball when she was open. She knocked ... ERIC EASTMAN She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only w... RICHELLE MEAD I asked her if she was OK. She was adamant that she would call in 30 minutes. BERNADETTE MCELROY In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi... LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the... LAO SHE She didn't even know her hand was gone. She did not scream. She was very calm. DAMEKAH RILEY She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN She narrowed her eyes at him. She wanted to tell him that it was his fault, that she would ne... KIMBERLY DERTING He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL She shrunk into herself and waited for me to stare at her like she was gross an dirty. But I just wa... KRISTA RITCHIE He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she beg... LEO TOLSTOY If she wanted this man to trust her, to open up to her, she would have to strip every last piece of ... DIANNA HARDY I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... NEIL GAIMAN She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... MICHAEL ONDAATJE Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... NICHOLAS SPARKS Did she say anything before she died?" he asked. "Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h... SHERMAN ALEXIE She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h... CHIEF JOSEPH She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left... ANITA GATTIS 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 ...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy an... PAUL HOFFMAN She was a natural in being careless, haggard, even dirty. that made her look adventurous, flirtatiou... APURVA SHARMA He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling... ALICE HOFFMAN She felt she was ready to go. Her caregiver, she told her she loved her and said to tell everyone el... JAMES ROGERS Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... bef... J.R. WARD She wasn't entirely sure how she felt, All she knew was that he entered her world And sh... NIKKI ROWE She wasn't crying, she didn't even sound frightened. She told me her plane was hijacked and that the... TED OLSON She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... ALICE MUNRO She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... KEN FOLLETT He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her drea... CASSANDRA CLARE But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... ANN PATCHETT He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a v... BRIAN ANDREAS She felt one thousand years old. She also felt like maybe she was a condescending brat. She wanted h... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. ... JODI PICOULT
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