Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried. Her father had most cruelly mortified her, by what he said of Mr. Darcy's indifference, and she could do nothing but wonder at such a want of penetration, or fear that perhaps, instead of his seeing too little, she might have fancied too much.
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NICK HORNBY What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... ALICE MUNRO Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such thin... ROBERT GALBRAITH She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN He knew her and she was very kind to him. They were neighbors. And clearly, she was mortified at wha... LORI WADA But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could no... MARGARET MITCHELL She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, ... MICHAEL ONDAATJE She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkne... MARGARET MITCHELL Of course, she could still walk away. She won't, he thought. She has to feel it, too. He said, " I'v... MAGGIE STIEFVATER [Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too muc... ANDREW WILSON Lucinda might sneak from her own house at midnight to place a wager somewhere else, but she dared no... PETER CAREY Royce understood then why she had come: she had come to finish the task her relatives had begun; to ... JUDITH MCNAUGHT Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ... MARIE RUTKOSKI Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always... MATTHEW DESMOND While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget..." ... DONNA LYNN HOPE Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions w... MEREDITH DURAN She had a huge bump, but she wasn't sure what hit her. It swelled up when she was out there. She did... GINA NOLAN If Miss Beresford had not been in such a hurry to marry a poor country clergyman, there was no knowi... ELIZABETH GASKELL But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, ... SETH GRAHAME-SMITH I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of f... TERESA OF ÁVILA An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing a... MARIE RUTKOSKI And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he ... J.K. ROWLING You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi... CASSANDRA CLARE It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice... SARAH DESSEN Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... BETTY SMITH Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit... PHILIPPA GREGORY When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdnes... DEAN JACKSON Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting th... JANE AUSTEN He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking... PAULA BRACKSTON A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potent... DONNA LYNN HOPE But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... ANN PATCHETT Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do... THOMAS HARDY The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She... HAN KANG It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to s... CARSON MCCULLERS She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL ... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and s... CATHLEEN SCHINE She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, f... ELIZABETH GASKELL Valentine whirled. Clary, lying half-conscious in the sand, her wrists and arms a screaming agony, s... CASSANDRA CLARE But then she remembered something else, just a flash: looking up at Damon’s face in the woods and ... L.J. SMITH But she loved her dad; she was a daddy's girl. She said her father had changed the life insurance an... MALINDA GONZALES She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to d... JANE AUSTEN The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of and that had come down to her had set a tra... SHERWOOD ANDERSON She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, ... MARGARET ATWOOD No matter what, the day didn't feel like Christmas to her. She remembered years ago, when... KAYLA KRANTZ While this is all very amusing, the kiss that will free the girl is the kiss that she most desires,�... CASSANDRA CLARE I once knew a girl that meant the world to me, she was just amazing. She's that one girl in my life ... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB She yearned to see her mother again, and Robb and Bran and Rickon… but it was Jon Snow she thought... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Incredulity and indifference were her only reaction: incredulity, because she could not conceive of ... AYN RAND 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 Jay showed up after school with a bouquet of flowers and an armful of DVDs, although Violet couldn�... KIMBERLY DERTING I was worried that if I told her the story, she would identify with it too much. That her sympathy, ... OLIVIA SUDJIC But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. .... PETER CAREY The little queen’s mother and father had said that she would live on, for a long time, and that he... MEIA GEDDES She was a super teacher, ... She was so crippled with arthritis that when the students went to the p... MAGGIE MALONE She remembers rehearsals. Wrong notes turning to right ones, dissonance becoming harmony. She re... KATHRYN HOLMES A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S... METTE IVIE HARRISON It was well-known he was stalking her. I think that she had been seeing him briefly but then had dec... HEATHER CHULU She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refr... MARCEL PROUST She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she... CHERYL STRAYED This was our house. Mine and hers. I know she’d sneak over to the rectory every once in a while an... TIFFANY REISZ Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi... THOMAS HARDY A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady... KAGE BAKER Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the... CORNELIA FUNKE But the lies which Odette ordinarily told were less innocent, and served to prevent discoveries whic... MARCEL PROUST Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing. Kids had yelled at her. Demand... MICHAEL GRANT When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... CASSANDRA CLARE When some women felt fear, they covered it with an iron grate of courage, I thought. Men might be da... KELSEY BRICKL What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ... JERRY SPINELLI It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know e... FANNIE FLAGG Karou was mysterious. She had no apparent family, she never talked about herself, and she was expert... LAINI TAYLOR Kiss me again,” he challenged, only half joking. It was so weird to hear him say that, to hea... KIMBERLY DERTING When I see her,” I said, “it’s like - I don’t know what it’s like. It’s like I never saw... SARAH WATERS Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... CASSANDRA CLARE She had been waiting for someone to notice her, like, really notice her. She felt that that was the ... ROSE FALL Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a... JANE AUSTEN If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appe... ARTHUR WEIGALL Miss Elizabeth Mapp might have been forty, and she had taken advantage of this opportunity by being ... E.F. BENSON To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly n... THOMM QUACKENBUSH
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