Melvynn Bragg quote: "Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then that would be a life which take every ounce of her strength. She wanted no less. She loved to see the shapes and strokes of line and turn them into words: she loved the idea of battling against enemies external and internal and all her will being consumed in that battle."

If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in sh...
AMANDA LANCE

Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too larg...
COCO J. GINGER

Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes...
BETTY SMITH

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

She had been waiting for someone to notice her, like, really notice her. She felt that that was the ...
ROSE FALL

Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,...
DANIELLE STEEL

The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l...
LEO TOLSTOY

Every year on her birthday, she would pick out a song which she would force me to sing at the top of...
VICTORIA PRINCIPAL

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much...
EMILY MAGUIRE

Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi...
STIEG LARSSON

He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

She felt she was ready to go. Her caregiver, she told her she loved her and said to tell everyone el...
JAMES ROGERS

She could be dogmatic, of course and Lord help you if you disagreed -- that was the tone of many of ...
LEONARD MALTIN

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a po...
LYNN JOHNSTON

She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so...
JOHN GREEN

Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the...
ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE

…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women b...
KATE CHOPIN

Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai...
CASSANDRA CLARE

Prove it!" she hissed. "Prove you are who you are!"
"We don't have time for this! You really wa...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ...
KEN FOLLETT

Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for ...
C. JOYBELL C.

Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe...
CASSANDRA CLARE

Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could...
STEVAN V. NIKOLIC

But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ...
ANN PATCHETT

Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She was perfectly sane in streets unknown. She loved conversing with people tagged as strangers. She...
DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE

She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly wha...
FREDRIK BACKMAN

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE

She wanted to write about something other then love. Yet her freethinking pen seemed more adhered to...
COCO J. GINGER

When Nicole came to the shelter, you could see she had a look in her eye that she really loved anima...
JAMES HODGE

If a girl admits that she likes you, know that it took her every ounce of courage she has. Don't tak...
RANA MAGDY

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
EDITH WHARTON

Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a...
JANE AUSTEN

Getting ink felt right, like it would help her put her life in order, to move forwards. It was her b...
MELISSA MARR

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 nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S...
METTE IVIE HARRISON

She gave her a reason to write her own words, to see that words had also brought her to life.
...
MARKUS ZUSAK

The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, ...
DONNA LYNN HOPE

She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE

My aunt must have been perfectly well aware that she would not see Swann again, that she would never...
MARCEL PROUST

Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and sai...
LATOYA LONDON

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

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonize...
THOMAS HARDY

It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she ...
HANK SNOW

And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the cir...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless an...
ANN BRASHARES

I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

She was nine when she came in, and we had her several months. Her home life was not the best. She wa...
BRENDA WEBB

Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tr...
JHUMPA LAHIRI

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which ...
AYN RAND

Avis named her business Paradise Pastry because she imagined cathedrals. She thought about the stone...
DIANA ABU-JABER

Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She...
LATIKA TEOTIA

Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. ...
TIM WILLOCKS

How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for w...
ELIZABETH GASKELL

She really loved her independence. She could be an ornery cuss when she wanted to. She was tough as ...
JOAN MILLER

Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ...
PHILIP PULLMAN

After a while Luce curled up with her head leaning on a rock, wondering why she wasn't consumed with...
SARAH PORTER

She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'...
PHILIP PULLMAN

She opened her eyes slowly and saw that a pale lavender moth had come to a rest on the back of her h...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN

I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a be...
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN

She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her b...
GARTH STEIN

I had a bride-to-be walk in here the week after Christmas who wanted a dress to take with her to be ...
CAROLINE BEREND

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who...
LAURA ESQUIVEL

She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h...
CASSANDRA CLARE

She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK

She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would li...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Wild need slipped into his mind as she moaned into his mouth and he fucking loved how greedy she was...
SETTA JAY

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an...
FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND

She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the b...
BETTY SMITH

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.
Th...
MELINA MARCHETTA

Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She want...
KRISTIN CASHORE

She shrank into her chair, sure that if he could see her now, he would know. The truth would be evid...
MARISSA MEYER

In a few minutes she would be alone with him; she would run down the ladder, and let him see her; th...
BARONESS EMMUSKA ORCZY

For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude w...
KEVIN BROCKMEIER

My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights o...
JANET RENO

I'm so proud of you," she said, and she supposed she was, or she would have been if her sister hadn'...
MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON

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

That night, she told me how much she was tired of hurting her mom and her dad. I still remember her ...
CINDY GARCIA

And the child, Francie Nolan, was of all the Rommelys and all the Nolans. She had the violent weakne...
BETTY SMITH

She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her...
AYN RAND

She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again...
ALBERT CAMUS

As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE

By this point Viviane Lavender had loved Jack Griffith for twelve years, which was far more than hal...
LESLYE WALTON

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.

Not just wanted, but...
JAMES ROBERTSON

Perrotte frowned. “I’d like to turn a plowshare into a sword ,” she said. “I’d cut our way...
MERRIE HASKELL

For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a c...
KATE CHOPIN

I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed...
JORI NUNES

She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mi...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS

She tried to think of the right thing to say - something that would make him leave her alone. If she...
CAROLINE HANSON

One of them is a very familiar personage. Her name is “Mother Church.” She is, in many ways, an ...
ROSEMARY HAUGHTON

And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to f...
JULIA HOBAN

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it...
RUTH REICHL

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years h...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her, as visible as h...
PHILIPPA GREGORY

I would have loved to see Paula have more success than she did, because she is the right kind of per...
JON CAREY

And then there were the things Sally knew her mother would have loved. Those, too, made it easy to i...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do...
THOMAS HARDY

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