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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eyes. In every gesture, dignity and love.


J.D. Robb

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Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her Eye, In every gesture dignity and love
JOHN MILTON In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
GEORGE CRABBE Finally, she took him in, all wet and sexy beneath her.
Every breath and groan echoed over the ...
LISA GILLIS It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
KURT VONNEGUT You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes, and her eyes everywhere in the world.
DAVID LEVESQUE I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that,...
ALLY CONDIE Love in her sunny eyes does basking play;/ Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair;/ Love does on ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo...
JANE AUSTEN I'm just saying you should pick a man who knows that he's not worthy of you and who will dedicate hi...
SUSAN EE It's a physical sickness. Étienne. How much I love him.

I love Étienne.
STEPHANIE PERKINS I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selfle...
NAJIB RAZAK The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God!
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pre...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The way she curls in my arms makes me feel like I’m the hero. I like being her hero. I like the wa...
KATIE MCGARRY She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies; And all that's best o...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dar...
LORD BYRON Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled beca...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH For this, i give a remembrance to the baby that did not make it to this world. For although i am who...
GARY F EVANS... My whole body sank forward into his arms. His lips moved against mine, exploring my mouth so gently....
HEATHER ANASTASIU Her gaze met his, her blue eyes filled with confusion and terror – and love. If Julian hadn’t al...
PAMELA CLARE We have now reached hypersonic speed technological advances have excelled since the sixties in 20 ye...
GARY F EVANS... She went in at halftime, her head was down, there were tears in her eyes.
SUE ADAMS You wait and wait, you get used to waiting. But when your time comes, you must not miss it.
CHLOE THURLOW The people he met, the places he passed, were all steps in his journey, and he kept a place inside h...
RACHEL JOYCE And I love being with you. Your giggle, your silly grin, how you apply you personality in paste. The...
RADITYA DIKA She had stars in her eyes and galaxies in her veins
ROSIE PERRY She had asked for a DVD in which her steps were recorded, to be sent to Rio where she was shooting. ...
HARI SINGH The open forgiveness in her eyes, the uncensored love, terrified me.
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH She looks at him (Andrew) with such love in her eyes.
APRIL GODRA Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sun...
B. DEVINE That made love—not grace—the magic ingredient. Then a
new thought hit her. Perhaps love was...
PENELOPE MARZEC No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her ang...
APRILYNNE PIKE The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in ...
DAVID MITCHELL I gazed into her beautiful green eyes and her fear melted. A shy smile tugged at her lips and at my ...
KATIE MCGARRY Her hopeless love swelled up inside her, crying for an outlet, and all she could do was hold it sile...
LYN DUCOTY I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound....
C.S. LEWIS With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Leave her to Heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
OSCAR WILDE Falling in love through the internet is falling in love with the idea of being in love.
MARICEL CONSOLACION She'd just walked into heaven. And her grandmother was right there, in every scent.
Sugary and ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Stefan’s love bathed her, shone through her, lighting every dark place in her soul like the sun. S...
L.J. SMITH But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart scre...
COCO J. GINGER A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
WOODROW WYATT A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
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KELLY MORAN Sometimes we humans do not want to accept love for what it is. Love demands, transforms, and most of...
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BIBLE Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Oh! could you view the melody Of every grace, And music of her face, You'd drop a tear,...
RICHARD LOVELACE She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes.
GIOVANNIE DE SADELEER Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too co...
STACY SCHIFF She was basically resting. She would come in and out of her rest, open her eyes, look around and go ...
BERNICE KING Her steel blue eyes captivated him at first glance and along with the alluring scent of jasmine surr...
VIRGINIA ALISON People Say falling in Love is the result of not getting enough Love from home; but the truth is, you...
ALEN THOMAS In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
LORD BYRON All of the heartache, the anger, the fear that this was as good as it was ever going to get, was wor...
APRILYNNE PIKE She knew her distance and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impedime...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi...
STIEG LARSSON Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.
RAINBOW ROWELL Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.
SAMUEL LOVER Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ...
RAY BRADBURY My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
LES DAWSON Me and my big pork chop side burns and her and her bright orange hair. It was a match made in heaven...
JASON BURKE A woman was in love with an ugly guy. Her friend asked her, “Why him?” Then, the woman replied i...
NAZZII PUNK YOGESH When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine.
Pigs in Heaven
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mik...
BEYONCE KNOWLES You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE When you fall in love, everything is impregnated with new meaning. It is as if you suddenly have bor...
CHLOE THURLOW All girls compare themselves with every other girl. It is our nature; our tragedy, and it all change...
CHLOE THURLOW I understood how strangers met and fell into bed, not how they met and fell in love. I wasn't sure w...
CHLOE THURLOW don't fall in love with the body. fall in love with the innocent , soul, as family ,heart and charac...
DHARM BABU Love is the colour of spring sunshine muted through old windows. Love has a taste, a texture - dark ...
CHLOE THURLOW Its harder to gain the heart that loves than the heart that hates.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Falling in love is life's sweetest accident,for you always want it to happen again & again.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You came to my life
with what you were bringing,
made
of light and bread and shadow I...
PABLO NERUDA Bijau būti nemylimas, nes pats vis dar tebesu įsimylėjęs.
ARTūRAS TEREšKINAS Being in love is like being fat..You can't hide it
DRU EDMUND KUCHERERA Ah me! why may not love and life be one?
HENRY TIMROD The love game is never called off on account of darkness
THOMAS L. MASSON When God made love it came from the heavens, as a blessing to humanity and life.Love is pure when fo...
GARY F EVANS... Kate realized she had a grave problem. She was infatuated. Or mildly insane. Possibly both.
TESSA DARE All I’m saying is that I don’t want to sort of fall in love with fifty different people. I’d r...
ANNA WHITE Love is like Immortal flame one can never have enough,even one have all the lights within....
KHODE MANISH V She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dar...
LORD BYRON She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of da...
LORD BYRON the sadness in her eyes.
GRETA GARBO So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there
JOHN DRYDEN Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.
HEARD IN ARKANSAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING: defined in such a way that WE ALL AGREE upon it's shared relevance and WHY WE WI...
HOMELESS IN FAIRFAX I relieve and release your hurt that you may be set free.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND What if I should fall right through the center of the earth... oh, and come out the other side, wher...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND People who suffer from migraine with aura can sometimes experience a phenomenon called the
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND I don't care much where ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
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J.D. SALINGER She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, hol...
J.D. SALINGER You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time
You turn ar...
J.D. SALINGER Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.
Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever...
J.D. SALINGER Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?'
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to...
J.D. SALINGER Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm no...
J.D. SALINGER My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minu...
J.D. SALINGER Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.
J.D. SALINGER People never notice anything.
J.D. SALINGER It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yell...
J.D. SALINGER Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J.D. SALINGER That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J.D. SALINGER Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sink...
J.D. GREEAR It’s history. It’s poetry.
J.D. SALINGER Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
J.D. SALINGER I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
J.D. SALINGER The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be...
J.D. SALINGER I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.
J.D. SALINGER I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J.D. SALINGER Mothers are all slightly insane.
J.D. SALINGER Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I’m some sort of...
J.D. VANCE Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us ...
J.D. VANCE An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J.D. SALINGER After all, I wasn’t even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because bein...
J.D. BREWER The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we coul...
J.D. GREEAR I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
J.D. SALINGER It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite youn...
J.D. SALINGER Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and ev...
J.D. SALINGER People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.
J.D. SALINGER Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost i...
J.D. SALINGER Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and...
J.D. SALINGER D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know w...
J.D. SALINGER That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
J.D. SALINGER I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometime...
J.D. SALINGER I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. An...
J.D. SALINGER As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his pri...
J.D. SALINGER Rudford lay on his back in the grass and watched great cotton clouds slip through the sky. Peculiarl...
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