From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
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Related From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t... BETTY SMITH She would have to take this as a lesson for future; she would never get drunk and unknowingly plot w... BETH ASHWORTH What I noticed, from day one, was after I became friends with Judy, she drank all day. The baby was ... CHRISTINA STEVENS There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she w... CORNELIA FUNKE Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them agai... CHARLES CALEB COLTON Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them agai... CHARLES CALEB COLTON She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was no... TONI MORRISON For Betty, feminism was an aspect of humanism. And one of her sons said this morning that she demons... EMILY BAZELON The world was hers for the reading. BETTY SMITH That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a... DANA SPIOTTA If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them cou... KRISTIN CASHORE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with t... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN He always questioned people she was talking to. She never hung out with any of her friends anymore, ... HALEY GRAINGER This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became... MICHAEL ONDAATJE I never thought I’d ever leave Zerc. But after knowing Cricket, it occurred to me that I had no re... ASH GRAY It was a sad blow to her when Denis passed away; that left her rather more lonely. She never really ... CHARLES POWELL Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, sh... SARAH J. MAAS I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di... CAROLINE KENNEDY Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her mor... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for week... EVA IBBOTSON My mother flew out to see us on April 9. She had never flown before, and that snowstorm stretched fr... ANNETTE BROWN Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She ... ODETTE ANNABLE She's been spreading the word among her friends. She was also a guest for us at an intimate screenin... CONNIE WHITE He had to have been a lonely guy. He gave up his whole life for his career, ... When he was on the r... STEVE ALLEN I looked at my friend. I don’t know what I had done to deserve her friendship but she was always t... AMANDA STONE When she was 4 1/2, she asked for three straight months if she could take skating lessons, ... I did... ANGELA DAVIS Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... CASSANDRA CLARE the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the boo... DOUGLAS PRESTON We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our chi... EMILY DICKINSON We shall miss Leopardstar. I remember her from all the way back when I was an apprentice in ThunderC... ERIN HUNTER She was actively involved from the first days of the child's life, bathing her, feeding her, caring ... JANET JENKINS I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends. IAN MCEWAN Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of inte... MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Betty was unbelievable, ... That's what we need from her every game. Once she does that, we're unsto... LAUREN JACKSON I was there for her. I buried one of my dearest friends. I was not going to get caught up in the min... LYNN COTHREN For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was in... ALICE SEBOLD There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywher... LIN YUTANG She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkne... MARGARET MITCHELL Betty was unstoppable. That's what we need from her every game. Once she does that, we are unstoppab... LAUREN JACKSON She was conscious of the moments passing like irrevocable time, irrevocable happiness, for in these ... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tac... JEAN RHYS Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians. SUNDAY ADELAJA Sandy felt warmly towards Miss Brodie at these times when she saw how she was misled in her idea of ... MURIEL SPARK Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she w... LAUREN CONRAD I was raised with my mother saying over and over again to me, “If your friends jumped off the Broo... DEBORAH SIMPSON To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends. I’d never be ... C.S. LEWIS He would see her again. He knew he would. Magic bent the world. Pulled it into shape. There were fix... VICTORIA SCHWAB There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith. HEBER J. GRANT Karou was mysterious. She had no apparent family, she never talked about herself, and she was expert... LAINI TAYLOR From our first meeting I was very impressed by her. She clearly had more potential as a dramatic act... GREG HARRISON On silent moonless nights, I don't feel lonely! I have my greatest friends - my books for company! AVIJEET DAS He took time to explain the course of the disease and he supported Karen and assured her that he wou... JOELLYN SCHULTZ From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care... CASSANDRA CLARE I just thought about the impact she was making on me. Then, it took more of a global perspective. To... KRISTINA MATARAZZO The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER She supported everything, she was there for every game. She would go full out, she never just wore n... JENNIFER KIMBALL It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was ... SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. I hoped she understood that I was hers, completely and undeniably, forever. That if I had all of thi... MOLLY MCADAMS I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standin... MARIE LU You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them ... FREDRIK BACKMAN I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she ... STEPHEN COLBERT There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place... NEIL GAIMAN Friends are like puzzle pieces. If one goes away, that special piece can never be replaced and that ... UNKNOWN My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In... CHANTAL AKERMAN And then she felt her Ell’s great strong presence beside her, and Saturday slipped his hand in her... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE She was very informative. She never got out of the small town, really, (but) you would think by talk... DANA WILLIAMS I do not remember our love unfolding, that we got to know one another and in time became friends. I ... ANN PATCHETT My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was ... DANNY AIELLO Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms on the windowsill, she was different. Things had happ... NATALIE BABBITT I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leavin... PETER S. BEAGLE She would call me every day on her way to work. Yesterday I was waiting for her to call and it never... MARINA DANIELS Our daughter wanted to talk about some of the topics that the books brought up, such as menstruation... HELEN EGGER The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings... CANDACE BUSHNELL She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew hersel... ANN BRASHARES She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN She felt it every night; a familiar pain in her loin, a gasp of air, the numbness and the nauseousne... ANONYMOUS1234 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 Clary knew she’d never be able to pull off that sort of elegance in a million years, and she didn�... CASSANDRA CLARE You will never be lonely if you fill your life with meaningful projects and friends. LORRIN L. LEE We had Cathy over from Oahu to read in 2004, and not only was the event well attended but her readin... JULIE MITCHELL My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends. PAUL HAGGIS But Julian's blood was different. When she saw it she thought of him, shot and crumpling, the way hi... CASSANDRA CLARE ... and in that part of the world the darkness could go on and on forever, as though there would nev... ANNA GODBERSEN Even when she was raising us, she would make time to go out and solicit friends and acquaintances to... BEATRICE E. MORRISON He has realized the relationship is over and it?s time to move on. She would never call him to check... KATRINA SZISH What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she ... GEORGE MACDONALD She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows aro... NICOLE KRAUSS He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends VICTOR HUGO He cupped his hand around her cheek, and she marveled at how perfectly his palm fit her cheek. His f... SUMMER HINES She was like the sun, She knew her place in the world - She would shine again regardless... NIKKI ROWE She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic. NIKKI ROWE She was Anna and that was it. There was not a vain bone in her body. She dressed simply, but always ... HELEN LINHART That was how she saw the storyteller for the last time - in an absolutely silent world, in a stairca... ANTONIA MICHAELIS Between the sisters' joined hands, the pressure of their pulses mingled in steady throbs. Daisy was ... LISA KLEYPAS There was also a well. On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible mad... NEIL GAIMAN
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BETTY HILL And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along. BETTY HILL And that's how I wrote to NICAP, but then later, just very soon after that, like three weeks later, ... BETTY HILL And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one... BETTY HILL Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get. BETTY HILL A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland. BETTY HILL 15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall. BETTY HILL This whole evening has been a once in a lifetime opportunity for Shelbyville. I'm thankful for the c... BETTY HARRISON This whole evening has been a once in a lifetime opportunity for Shelbyville, ... I'm thankful for t... BETTY HARRISON Because the world has gone this way, we would be foolish not to give our kids access to these machin... BETTY HARRISON I have no evidence anyone is doing any more substantial research because they're on the Internet tha... BETTY HARRISON You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tigh... BETTY GRABLE With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world. BETTY GRABLE The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. BETTY GRABLE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g... BETTY GRABLE I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents. BETTY GRABLE There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them. BETTY GRABLE The glorification of the ""'woman's role,"" then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance ... BETTY FRIEDAN Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were al... BETTY FRIEDAN Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength BETTY FRIEDAN When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy bei... BETTY FRIEDAN The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. BETTY FORD Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help. BETTY FORD My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle... BETTY FORD It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you have... BETTY FORD It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old.... BETTY FORD Have a nice trip, Dick. BETTY FORD The process turns you off, and it's got to where I don't even know who's lying and who's telling the... BETTY FORD If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to ... BETTY DODSON If we all talked honestly about what's really happening in our sex lives, we'd realise that we're al... BETTY DODSON