Grampie's boat was a little double-ender, a model not built nowadays. She was narrow, so that she pitched and rolled something wicked in almost any sea. He could handle her, but he said she was probably the boat Christ got out of and walked away from on the water.
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Related Now with her eyes closed and fist clenched at her side. She was as off balanced as he was. Lilith to... SHADOWSTORM NORWICCA So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception,... BIBLE She pitched great. She stayed in it even if she walked a batter. Defense was behind her and she did ... HOLLY TIPPIN Did he fall overboard? Did he just walk off the boat and disappear? Was it accidental, was it delibe... SAVANNAH TROTINKSY Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she... MATT TOMERLIN There was so much tree gum in her hair from where he dragged her through the woods. She told me she ... LARONDA BULLARD She smiled at him. “How did you know just what I’d want to see?” “How could I not?” h... CASSANDRA CLARE We watched them pull her mother out of the water on the boat next to us. I was sort of holding Carol... HELEN NILES All one of our firefighters could do was comfort her on the boat ride back until she could get medic... CASEY CUMMINGS She was hyperventilating. Acid started turning up in her stomach. By the time she got away from ever... ANDREA STILLMAN So he found her. Most people would have said she was relaxed. But then, Roarke thought, most people ... J.D. ROBB But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. .... PETER CAREY he says. ''It was one of those ponds that are stocked with fish. He told me not to bring any live ba... TED WILLIAMS So she was the one who filled out those college applications and he just double-checked her. JOSIE SHIGENO We were able to take a boat ride to her favorite place, and being able to tell her about that made h... DAN BROOKS Dale was a sweetheart. He was a little bit of a thrill-seeker. He loved being out on the water on a ... DEBORAH BESLEY Miranda was in a sort of little Charleston dress, she was probably 14, and she sat on the piano and ... BARRY OTTO This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed... JANE BOWLES Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... KURT VONNEGUT she saw a big boat coming close and she said, 'Whoop-dee-doo. I love a rocking boat.' DOROTHY WARREN she saw a big boat coming close and she said, 'Whoop-dee-doo. I love a rocking boat.' DOROTHY WARREN The worst stage was when one could tell she was still awake and almost alert, but she knew that noth... M.T. ANDERSON [She loved to travel, visiting places such as Alaska, Europe, Florida and California, with her daugh... ANN MARSH What are you?' She asked. He shot her a brief glance and looked away. He stared at the scenery of th... SHIRLEY A. MARTIN My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea:
But, before I go, Tom Moore,
Here's ... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I once took the key off my girlfriend's key ring so that I could surprise her when she got home.... TREY SONGZ I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Juan Peron, I think in the end, had become a little resentful of Eva. She was so popular. She was so... ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO He (Paris) tells us he got into some waves in a wake. He attempted to steer out of it and in doing s... WARREN COUNTY He was so proud when she graduated from college. He was so proud to give her away [at her wedding]. GAYLE CARRICO Sometimes Coraline would forget who she was while she was daydreaming that she was exploring the Arc... NEIL GAIMAN He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; somet... NATHANAEL WEST It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they we... ÉMILE ZOLA She was in so fast that she didn’t have a chance to scream. The icy cold water stole her breath aw... B.J. DANIELS But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... MERVYN PEAKE She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co... HARPER LEE I'm so sorry," he whispered to her, knowing she couldn't hear. "I'm so sorry." Her mouth moved,... JAMES DASHNER I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... CASSANDRA CLARE The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, ye... JERRY SPINELLI It was something that was very minor. She worked out and thought she was ready to go. She got to the... CHARLES WELLS The trail through the pines and beech trees was bright red. He was surprised the other human couldn�... AMY KUIVALAINEN I love you," he said. She looked up at him, her eyes shiny and black, then looked away. "... RAINBOW ROWELL She missed him. And she was scared, deep down, because she felt him pulling away from her, and even ... HARRIET EVANS I was in line at a store and there was a little girl, she was standing in line next to me and some o... BIANCA LAWSON It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing on... CANDACE BUSHNELL When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN She said she was all right and I think she ran well enough to prove that she was strong enough to co... ERIC HASLETT Alysandir is a fine horseman," Isobella said. He was about to dismount, and she stepped upon a stool... ELAINE COFFMAN She smiled and he abruptly looked away. Was it really necessary for her to smile? It was bad enough ... JACQUELINE FRANCIS - THE JOURNAL She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed t... J.K. ROWLING You deserve to be happy,” he said. And meant it. She deserved the joy he so often glimpsed on her ... SARAH J. MAAS How did you meet him?" I asked her. She smiled. "Here, actually. During a dinner rush. He was s... SARAH DESSEN He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had p... CHRISTINE FEEHAN You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi... CASSANDRA CLARE I love you," he said, holding her close and running his fingers through her tangled hair as if he co... DEBORAH BLAKE Her mother said she was abducted a few days before in Houston, Tex., and that Scout basically got aw... MANON CARRIE Looked like the lady that was helping them was a, maybe a nurse or something 'cause she kind of knew... ANDY AKAMINE They were both comparative mirrors of each other. It was clear to her now more than he had used her ... CRYSTAL EVANS His breath caught, harsh enough that she looked over her shoulder. But his eyes weren't o... SARAH J. MAAS To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing on everything she was, a p... ROBYN SCHNEIDER She was incredibly responsible in the workplace, [but] she was incredibly socially immature. Greg [S... LINDA WOJAS My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The storm didn't take her, God took her, ... We could've just drowned in that boat because it was ju... JOAN JOHNSON Once Doc got an idea in her head that she was going to do something, you didn't stop her. She had th... ED HARRIS The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not kno... PETER S. BEAGLE She probably was standing in the hall, acting like she was on a cell phone or looking at the bulleti... JOETTE ROCKOW She drove away from there. That was the last time she was seen. She did not return to her home on Ha... LT. DENNIS DINSMORE She was an ugly little duckling — she wasn't ugly but she was a little duckling with terrible cost... FRANK CARROLL She was an ugly little duckling she wasn't ugly but she was a little duckling with terrible costu... FRANK CARROLL Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit... PHILIPPA GREGORY But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see t... SHANNON HALE Meliorn?” said Clary. “I’ve met you, haven’t I? You used to go out with Isabelle Lightwood.�... CASSANDRA CLARE She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job li... PHILIP PULLMAN There was a guy telling his friend that he and his wife had a serious argument the night before. "Bu... UNKNOWN She [Matthews] walked onto the team three years ago without really any event that she could compete ... BRAD CATTERMOLE One little girl asked her mom if she could take $20 out of her piggy bank, ... I asked her if she di... TROY MILLER He swore to kill her. She could still see his face when he said it. He was nineteen then. He'd... JUDITH-VICTORIA DOUGLAS She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE As we drifted away from the Tower Bridge, I saw a single silhouette standing against the bright lamp... ERICA SEHYUN SONG Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She ... ANN BRASHARES Terrible thought she was brave. She remembered it now, heard his voice in her head as if he stood ne... STACIA KANE I just don't understand it," said Klaus, which was not something he said very often. Violet nod... LEMONY SNICKET When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tin... J.M. BARRIE She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she coul... SARAH SUNDIN Stephen's heart was big to bursting with the violence of his grief, yet even as he looked distracted... PATRICK O'BRIAN Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a... JANE AUSTEN She narrowed her eyes at him. She wanted to tell him that it was his fault, that she would ne... KIMBERLY DERTING She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial l... HENRY JAMES Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she wa... FUYUMI ONO Nancy was as proud as she was critical of her younger daughter. She spoke glowingly about the precoc... JOAN FRANCES CASEY He pulled something out of his pocket and tried to stick it in her arm. A needle. He'd offered her h... MELISSA MARR At the time he had closed in upon himself, denying her a place of entry. She was tenacious, aggressi... AMINATTA FORNA She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... ALICE MUNRO For a moment she believed he had left, but as she shifted away from the wall she sensed him there be... GWENN WRIGHT It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very speci... EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, ... CHRISTINE FEEHAN He was popular she was smart, she wore glasses he wore dark shades and played the guitar, she was lo... DAVID BENTO GUERRA
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RUTH REICHL We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe... RUTH RENDELL It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. BABE RUTH We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve. RUTH ROSS Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. RUTH GRAHAM A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. RUTH BEECHICK It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. BABE RUTH You just can't beat the person who never gives up. BABE RUTH To be somebody you must last. RUTH GORDON The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua... BABE RUTH There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. RUTH ROSS Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. RUTH HUBBARD Pregnant women! 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RUTH BENEDICT We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. RUTH BENEDICT Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. RUTH BENEDICT The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of th... RUTH GORDON To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the... RUTH HUBBARD The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions ... RUTH HUBBARD The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They ... RUTH BENEDICT When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt. RUTH ALMOG I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. BABE RUTH I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. BABE RUTH I have only one superstition. 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RUTH REICHL Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way th... RUTH REICHL 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It... RUTH RENDELL The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for ... RUTH REICHL The knives of jealousy are honed on details. RUTH RENDELL I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural tr... RUTH OZEKI He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one... RUTH PARK If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegran... RUTH REICHL If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag y... RUTH GLICK I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec... RUTH B I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ... RUTH B Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley ... RUTH REICHL To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiou... RUTH HARRIS I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. RUTH STOUT By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminish... RUTH REICHL Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I ... RUTH OZEKI Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I... RUTH REICHL Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her. RUTH NEGGA I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing ... BABE RUTH You just can't beat the person who never gives up. BABE RUTH I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful. RUTH HANDLER Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult ... RUTH HANDLER Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bi... BABE RUTH It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much... RUTH PORAT The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what... RUTH WILSON Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. RUTH REICHL The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. RUTH BENEDICT The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social exper... RUTH REICHL The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make... RUTH OZEKI The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on ... RUTH BUZZI In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of peo... RUTH HARRISON Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of ... RUTH GORDON Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized. RUTH WILSON I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishi... RUTH OZEKI If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease. RUTH REICHL I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford... RUTH RENDELL They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women. RUTH HANDLER My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a 'U' in the middle of the living room and dining... RUTH REICHL Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, co... RUTH GLICK My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm l... RUTH BUZZI In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers te... RUTH RENDELL The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. RUTH RENDELL I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective... RUTH RENDELL One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of... RUTH WARE I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obse... RUTH REINHARDT Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I... RUTH NEGGA I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon... RUTH B The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on beha... RUTH BENEDICT Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. RUTH GORDON Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. BABE RUTH It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up BABE RUTH You have to have a talent for having talent. RUTH GORDON In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them. RUTH GORDON Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, ... RUTH HUBBARD How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The har... BABE RUTH If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. BABE RUTH Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do. BABE RUTH Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. BABE RUTH I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout. BABE RUTH All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it... BABE RUTH Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. BABE RUTH Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. BABE RUTH You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him. RUTH ELLIS People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won... RUTH RENDELL Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau? RUTH SAUNDERS M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end ... RUTH REICHL Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye... RUTH REINHARDT I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ... RUTH RENDELL I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal... RUTH REICHL Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system. RUTH PORAT I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then... RUTH RENDELL Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on... RUTH PINKERTON What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were... RUTH REICHL She's another Tina Turner is what I see, RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; ... RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays. RUTH BROWN And, of course, I was singing cheap. RUTH BROWN There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o... RUTH BROWN We're at the cutting edge. The purely oral approach is newer and experimental in that it's not happe... RUTH HUBBARD In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ... RUTH NEGGA We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th... RUTH RENDELL People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ... RUTH OZEKI People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no... RUTH RENDELL My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means underst... RUTH REICHL I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n... RUTH NEGGA I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit. CHARLES RUTH My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ... RUTH RENDELL Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950... RUTH RENDELL Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done. RUTH ASAWA He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house ... RUTH CISERO To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oce... RUTH BERNHARD We really lifted that ball and there was some great intercepts to see. RUTH AITKEN My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL And I can promise you that we're not going to go to the Coastal Plain and come back with a three-buc... CHARLES RUTH The Stanford Mansion is certainly the jewel of Sacramento, ... and we're adding it to the crown jewe... RUTH COLEMAN I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands. BABE RUTH Even though this pegs to 150 percent of market, the premiums are still lower or benefits more expans... RUTH CASE Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom. RUTH GORDON I was like the queen of the South. RUTH BROWN The side of his face had gone numb so he went to a dentist, but was told he should see a doctor as w... RUTH LIGGETT I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly... RUTH RENDELL If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I f... RUTH NEGGA When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o... RUTH OZEKI For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core... RUTH GLICK I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humili... RUTH RENDELL But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. RUTH BROWN My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something calle... RUTH REICHL Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being un... RUTH REICHL We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues. RUTH BROWN There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through. RUTH BROWN There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stu... RUTH BROWN All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as ... RUTH BROWN I traveled all through the deep South, but I was not getting on the big TV shows. RUTH BROWN We get more complaints now because of the cost. Insurance companies are looking at limiting benefits... RUTH CASE The American dream is to have your own home and to have some sort of security with health insurance.... RUTH CASE Phoebe English Tyler Wallingford Matthews Wallingford RUTH WARRICK Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the intern... RUTH ASAWA Anthony is the anti-aesthete, RUTH REICHL We applaud the FDA for defining what whole grain is. Unfortunately, the FDA has not defined any clai... RUTH LITCHFIELD I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent ... RUTH RENDELL I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with ... RUTH PORAT Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on ... RUTH FIRST Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I ... RUTH RENDELL Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth RUTH MCKENNEY I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night. RUTH RENDELL After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.&... RUTH GLICK I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it becaus... RUTH WARRICK 'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals wi... RUTH REICHL I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our b... RUTH REICHL I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. RUTH BENEDICT