For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.
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Related It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment he... THRITY UMRIGAR Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai... CASSANDRA CLARE She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marri... SANDRA DALLAS When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she ha... STIEG LARSSON He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling... ALICE HOFFMAN Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. I... CASSANDRA CLARE She saw in his eyes that he knew she was thinking about him. She liked the fact that he knew it, and... NICHOLAS SPARKS She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h... JULIET MARILLIER He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a... CHRISTINE FEEHAN The male's diamond eyes locked on Payne, and though she hadn't seen him in forever, she knew who he ... J.R. WARD Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then ho... ALICE HOFFMAN At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes o... STEPHEN KING Simon was Simon. They told me I had a very commercial look. DEVIN JOHNSON Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... NICHOLAS SPARKS They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Last week I was one minute late, ... and when I got to class, the professor had locked the door. She... AMANDA BEARD Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in h... KATE MORTON She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here... LEO TOLSTOY Now with her eyes closed and fist clenched at her side. She was as off balanced as he was. Lilith to... SHADOWSTORM NORWICCA She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... KEN FOLLETT It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardl... JEANNE PYLE Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed... ELIZABETH STROUT For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught
of the fishes that they had taken... BIBLE For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken... BIBLE She never had an unkind word for Jack. And the time she stabbed him, it was an accident. She was in ... FRANK SINATRA Isabelle snorted. 'All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you, Simon.' 'You not... CASSANDRA CLARE Last week I was one minute late, ... and when I got to class, the professor had locked the door. She... AMANDA BEARD Harry was speechless. Hermione was the last person to do anything against the rules, and here she wa... J.K. ROWLING Her hands warming on tea looked like chunks of knitting a child had felted in grubby palms. Enough d... LAUREN GROFF Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he ... SALLY FIELD In their own brief conversations, he had the distinct impression that she was toying with him, verba... DIANA J. OAKS For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a c... KATE CHOPIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES She used to tell me she had no idea how Jack was getting so drunk. But we figured it out. Then he ha... PETER GUNTHER Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, sh... SARAH J. MAAS ...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy an... PAUL HOFFMAN Sure, he was lonely. Sure, they had a lot in common. Sure, he was attracted to her, and it was clear... TIM LAHAYE We already had a clinic kitten, Simon, and thought she could use company. CONNIE MAUTE But Julian's blood was different. When she saw it she thought of him, shot and crumpling, the way hi... CASSANDRA CLARE She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how muc... KATHLEEN WINSOR But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of h... STEVE MARTIN No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... J.D. ROBB Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for ... C. JOYBELL C. She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better t... J.K. ROWLING George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, fo... METTE IVIE HARRISON She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had... MARGARET ATWOOD It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a f... ELIZABETH HOYT She felt that she was beginning to know the pang of disappointed love, and that no other man could b... GEORGE ELIOT Bastard,” she spat at him, and she thought he had moved closer. She swung at him, and then suddenl... ROBIN HOBB But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see... CASSANDRA CLARE When she came out as a freshman you could tell she was going to be good and that she had a lot of po... KRISTI FRYE But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't w... CASSANDRA CLARE He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ... CASSANDRA CLARE He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had p... CHRISTINE FEEHAN Except she wasn’t Vicki Bell anymore. She was Vicki Bell Beaudry, owner of the Red Fox with her hu... BARBARA DELINSKY She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the ... MELISSA LANDERS I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she... PRABAL GURUNG And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stoo... J.K. ROWLING He felt she could be unpredictable and possibly violent. At one point, she indicated to him that she... STEVEN LANDES Wasn’t it true, then, that everything in his life from that point on had been a succession of thin... RICHARD YATES It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise momen... ROY L. PICKERING JR. All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had ... JULIET MARILLIER And not only of even mainly because of the protection it had given him - it was thanks to his own st... MICHAEL ENDE In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no... J.R. WARD It came as a tremendous shock to us. We had no idea. She was walking with a cane, she was speaking m... YOLANDA KING Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... STIEG LARSSON She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had t... BEVERLY CLEARY Most of the staff was much younger, but she was always the first one up and the last to bed. She nev... JEANNE CLARK That first round was a great win for Eli. That was a great win to have at the end of his senior year... MIKE BLAKE She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ... J.D. SALINGER Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was a... GARY INBINDER Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her ... DOUGLAS ADAMS He's saying he didn't see her, he didn't intentionally run her over and he had no idea she was attac... MARION WILLIAMS I am here to determine my relationship." Simon goggled. She couldn't be talking about him. Coul... CASSANDRA CLARE I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my... HARRIET TUBMAN She took on more of a leadership role as a senior. She was a quiet kid, not very talkative in the pa... JASON NICHOLS Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, wh... RICK RIORDAN It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a hou... NEIL GAIMAN In July and August 2011 Simon Wessely ran a media campaign with the BBC and the broadsheets, success... HORACE REID She had fire dancing in her eyes as she assaulted him with her serpent's tongue. Tonight she was not... SHAKUITA JOHNSON At the time he had closed in upon himself, denying her a place of entry. She was tenacious, aggressi... AMINATTA FORNA He smiled like he couldn't help it. She couldn't believe it. He was actally smiling , teeth an... KELLY CREAGH Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had hi... JOHN CUSACK She was very upset. She had a goal, and breaking a minute is a milestone like the four-minute mile. AL MARKS Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alo... GENA SHOWALTER They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regainin... JERI RYAN The want for that kiss had shocked him more than the interruption, and he fell back into the chair, ... KIM HARRISON Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she... MATT TOMERLIN This year he'd been caught up in a whirlwind called Jaenelle Angelline-as impossible to deflect as s... ANNE BISHOP Simon told The Philadelphia Inquirer. ''I had a great five years, and I enjoyed every minute of it. COREY SIMON The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to d... JANE AUSTEN There was a moment during this time, when his face was on hers, cheek on cheek, brow on brow, heavy ... A.S. BYATT His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL Simon, he's not as mean as everyone thinks he is, ... I was expecting much worse. EMILY HARRIS She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a se... T.H. WHITE Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... DANIELLE STEEL Paul left to get the beers from the kitchen and Simon turned to face Beth. Slowly, he crept in close... LINDSAY WOODWARD It was a little sexy, Simon said. He felt much better, having fed, and couldn't help but poke at Ale... CASSANDRA CLARE
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SUZANNE COLLINS What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How ... SUZANNE COLLINS We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear. SUZANNE COLLINS I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, ... SUZANNE COLLINS He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radia... SUZANNE COLLINS We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice. SUZANNE COLLINS He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospit... SUZANNE COLLINS Because...because...she came here with me. SUZANNE COLLINS My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger G... SUZANNE COLLINS We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revo... SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I... SUZANNE COLLINS You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug. SUZANNE COLLINS Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor. SUZANNE COLLINS Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza. SUZANNE COLLINS I have to bite my lip not to screen every foul name I know at the fire starter. What are they thinki... SUZANNE COLLINS Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho. SUZANNE COLLINS She crept up on me. SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared SUZANNE COLLINS How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving. SUZANNE COLLINS I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands ... SUZANNE COLLINS It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima... SUZANNE COLLINS It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss. SUZANNE COLLINS Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask. "Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ... SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme... SUZANNE COLLINS At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them. SUZANNE COLLINS If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole. SUZANNE COLLINS By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit... SUZANNE COLLINS As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve. SUZANNE COLLINS You've got to go through it to get to the end of it. SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games. SUZANNE COLLINS Why not? It's true. My best hope is to not disgrace myself and..." He hesitates. And what... SUZANNE COLLINS I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. SUZANNE COLLINS One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade... SUZANNE COLLINS I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have ch... SUZANNE COLLINS Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots. SUZANNE COLLINS The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its... SUZANNE COLLINS hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ... SUZANNE COLLINS Not like this. He wanted it to be real. SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. SUZANNE COLLINS So what should we do with our last few days?” “I just want to spend every possible minute o... SUZANNE COLLINS Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena. SUZANNE COLLINS Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he... SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt... SUZANNE COLLINS But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise. SUZANNE COLLINS Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around. SUZANNE COLLINS Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. SUZANNE COLLINS It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because ... SUZANNE COLLINS And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months s... SUZANNE COLLINS But some secrets are too delicious not to share. SUZANNE COLLINS If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek m... SUZANNE COLLINS In high school for a couple years we did archery. SUZANNE COLLINS