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His heart, the war.

Her face, the battlefield.


Rick Yancey

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her face, or her hair
that makes her beautiful.
Neither is it t...
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hour by hour nursing the wound with ...
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I ai...
STEPHEN KING Your daughter is ugly.
She knows loss intimately,
carries whole cities in her belly.
...
WARSAN SHIRE He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Alin...
LISA KLEYPAS She walks,
on the streets,
with a face that,
doesn't belong.
It smiles more than...
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The mind, the Music breathing from her face,
The ...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON He started to pull away again but she called his name so he stopped.
“Yeah?”
“Before...
KRISTEN ASHLEY From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broke...
ATTICUS POETRY Peter..."
He straightened, his back to her like a wall. Then, slowly, he turned his face toward...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in w...
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It's not her smile or grace,
It's not her beauty or race,
J.A. ANUM He scanned my face with careful hope in his eyes.
“You love me?”
“It’s the tatto...
JAMIE MCGUIRE This is crap," Shaun said, withdrawing his arm.

"Right," I agreed.

"Absolutel...
MIRA GRANT One side is not braver than the other. Bullets fly, and men get swept away. They rush into the thick...
GEORGIANN BALDINO She had the prettiest eyes
& prettiest smile with
Wounds on her heart and
bruis...
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It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph an...
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Cath's eye...
RAINBOW ROWELL He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe....
TONI MORRISON After soft kisses, they pressed their hands together palm to palm. The tingling scattered all over L...
DEBRA ANASTASIA And then that voice from behind her said her name again.

"Celaena."

They had d...
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V. THEIA Ara?"
She jerked her face up. "Huh? Where were we?"
But his expression had grown serious, ...
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all my mother's life, my father
held her down, like
lead strapped to ...
LOUISE GLüCK For the Wife Beater's Wife

With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue
Circling to ...
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a demon for some,
for me, it’s heart of the one.
Never want to h...
ABHISHEK KUMAR SINGH He grasped her by the wrist , running a thumb along the sensitive skin underneath. "Then let me call...
SARAH J. MAAS My father, father!' - she might pray to the winds;
no innocence moves her judges mad for war. <...
AESCHYLUS Duende

I can't remember her name.
It's not as though I've been in bed
with that...
JACK GILBERT Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her dear dog a bone.
Though the cupb...
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Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Finally, he slipped his arms around her too.
Her eyes closed in relief.
“I was thinking,...
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Means Rose Could Lose Her
Best Friend Forever?
RICHELLE MEAD Drualt took Freya's warm hand,
Her strong hand,
Her sword hand,
And pressed it to his...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I. At Tea

THE kettle descants in a cosy drone,
And the young wife looks in her husba...
THOMAS HARDY If you aren’t willing
to love her,
do not put dents
on her heart
that will inf...
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He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name...
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LARISSA IONE Dorian walked slowly back to his rooms, his heart racing. He could still feel her lips on his, smell...
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It’s him. It’s ...
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And then,...
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And lifts her face up,
She searches for the light,
The ligh...
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He put his hands on her shoulders and dr...
BEVERLY CLEARY stronger than mountains.
a place where my heart
feels the safest-
underneath his sh...
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Imperfectly beheld,—
The lady dare not lift her veil
For fea...
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I named her love.
She has a father.
His name is desire.
Her mo...
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...
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River: What face?

The D...
STEVEN MOFFAT Thanks. For everything. I mean it.’
A slow grin edged onto his face. ‘You’re worth it…...
JANA OLIVER The birthing wolf,
Her heart fed with tenderness,
Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,
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A slow, wicked smile spread on his face. "...
HOLLY BLACK You think Warner is sexy?"
...
"I do like his face.
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In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squ...
STEPHEN CRANE You missed a fine opportunity there."

Her heart raced as she whirled around. The hoarse v...
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the one you would love to chase.
She is the faith,
quite missing no...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER The woman raked her gaze up his body as if checking out livestock. As she reached his face, her kohl...
BRYNN KELLY Venus of Eryx, from her mountain throne,
Saw Hades and clasped her swift-winged son, and said:<...
OVID Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you."
No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he...
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I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his...
STEPHEN CRANE Lily?”
She couldn’t see his face, but she knew his eyes were on her. She could feel them. ...
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J.R. WARD I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.”
He closed the distance between them.
“Yo...
NORA ROBERTS I like holding it at the base.”

It’s too long for you,” he insisted, “which is w...
LISA KLEYPAS You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me."
"I was nine...
CASSANDRA CLARE He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them.
RAINBOW ROWELL ... As Lorcan stared down at Lysandra, his blood-splattered face impassive. "Out of the way, shifter...
SARAH J. MAAS Sorry,” he said. “Let me drop the belt-"
“No.” She held on when he would have pulled aw...
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I answered with the term I'd always...
ERICH SEGAL So you want to know all about me, Who
I am
What chance meeting of brush and canvas painte...
ELLEN HOPKINS Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don't.
I have grey eyes to her green,
a...
JANDY NELSON She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.

LANG LEAV WINTER'S GHOST:
Autumn moon
incautious in the dark river
Winter’s ghost walks
...
TAMARA RENDELL She shut her eyes to block out the image. This was all kinds of madness. “Tanner.”

M...
AMY ANDREWS Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile.
Jem said something that sounded like a ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I just can't believe that life would give us to each other," he said, "and then take it back."
...
RAINBOW ROWELL So many went on a quest to tame her,
The only man to win her heart was the one
Who was a...
NIKKI ROWE He spoke to her, though, if only through his verse. One night in the banqueting hall, just before a ...
JUDITH JAMES You have my heart,
send me a little word,
that I may go
unto her and take her hands
...
BJORK He carries stars in his pockets
because he knows
she fears the dark.
Whenever sadness...
ALASKA GOLD The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was...
VERONICS ROTH Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colore...
TIM BURTON All of a sudden, she was there, breaking away from the little group of women and running toward him....
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PHILIP YANCEY [...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt a...
PHILIP YANCEY God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme myste...
PHILIP YANCEY Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be ...
PHILIP YANCEY She's one of those girls that when she's on, you better watch out. She doesn't have much of a consci...
YANCEY LITTLE Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model ...
PHILIP YANCEY Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
PHILIP YANCEY When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'...
PHILIP YANCEY What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian p...
PHILIP YANCEY If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. ...
PHILIP YANCEY Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.
PHILIP YANCEY the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the hau...
PHILIP YANCEY Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Not...
PHILIP YANCEY As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more me...
PHILIP YANCEY Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."7-19 He lists hope at...
PHILIP YANCEY As a Jewish rabbi put it, "A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, ...
PHILIP YANCEY I have found consolation, for example, in C. S. Lewis's depiction in The Great Divorce of hell as a ...
PHILIP YANCEY We have a lot of distractions that come with homecoming week. Sylacauga got their first win the othe...
FRED YANCEY We knew we had to contain Thompson's quarterback. They gave us a great effort defensively.
FRED YANCEY This was a big win for us. I thought our kids did a great job playing wire-to-wire and working their...
FRED YANCEY Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He...
PHILIP YANCEY I want to learn from them. I want to do what I can to make a difference.
JANAY YANCEY I think that will be amazing. It's always been a dream of mine to play big time volleyball.
JANAY YANCEY I love the fact that they have a new coach. We just clicked automatically. (Coach Stubbs) was a frie...
JANAY YANCEY It's great. I set a goal for myself and I reached it. Now I've got to set a new one and keep on goin...
JANAY YANCEY I chose the school that I though would be best for me. There were a lot of different things between ...
JANAY YANCEY Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
PHILIP YANCEY We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (t...
WAYNE YANCEY You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us.
YANCEY LITTLE Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.
RICK WARREN I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues...
RICK DERRINGER If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already hav...
RICK PERRY And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting st...
RICK PERRY It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have...
RICK RIORDAN All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of...
RICK RIORDAN During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. ...
RICK WARREN Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
RICK WARREN You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.
RICK WARREN Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others a...
RICK SMOLAN The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomi...
RICK PERRY As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of Ame...
RICK RENZI Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyon...
RICK PITINO Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect...
RICK MOODY In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. An...
RICK RUBIN We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;...
RICK PERRY I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a ...
RICK ASTLEY This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel...
RICK MORANIS I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundr...
RICK MORANIS