His question reminded me of how easy he had been to deceive, so easy that he seemed to me almost a conniver at his wife's unfaithfulness, as the man who leaves loose banknotes in a hotel bedroom connives at theft, and I hated him for the very quality which had once helped my love.
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Related There was a time when I had all of his attention and loved it. As much as I wanted him to leave me a... PENELOPE DOUGLAS It wasn't as easy as it looked. He's really a tough opponent, he kept coming at me, I wasn't expecti... DARRION CALDWELL But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a ... MARK WALLACE Miller had gone off on some affairs of his own, as he always did when the routine at Bryant’s was ... STELLA GIBBONS And maybe just a little," he smirks, "why, are you an easy drunk?" he cocks his head to the side, in... KATHEY GRAY He deserved to win. The match was very easy for him, ... His style of play didn't surprise me, but w... CARLOS MOYA I was a total stranger to him, and he let me sit down at his table and we talked for an hour, ... I ... STEPHAN PASTIS Will knelt beside me. I wished I could have taken a holo of him at that moment and played it for him... CAMERON STRACHER I have often remarked in the United States that it is not easy to make a man understand that his pre... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I thin... ZAC EFRON I woke at dawn every morning to his touch, the delight of his warmth and the heady smell of his skin... PHILIPPA GREGORY I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the enti... LISA KLEYPAS He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’... J.K. ROWLING …in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning spee... PATRICK SüSKIND I never even heard of him or met him in my life. But when I got downstairs, he said, 'I've been wait... HAL TURNER Two years before, the man had ended my reign. I had been the semel of a tribe of werepanthers, leade... MARY CALMES Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as... HARRIET ANN JACOBS Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I coul... ERIC JEROME DICKEY He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for... LEO TOLSTOY Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ... ADLAI E. STEVENSON II Don't touch her," he growled. There was a note in his voice that would of scared me if it had b... RICHELLE MEAD When I saw him at his best
When everything was at its worst
He has proven me and the rest of the wor... HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS Nobody knew too much about him but he really helped the defense. His arm is great. It looks loose an... ERIC DUNCAN When we started jogging him, he was ready to turn around then, so we had to go real easy with him. H... TIM RITCHEY I let him kiss me because he had been in war and he fought for me, ... I only wish now I had had a c... EDITH SHAIN He told me he was in his hotel, had chest pains, the normal symptoms. The hotel arranged for an ambu... MICHAEL BROWN The time came in its season, and that was very soon, when I almost wondered that nothing troubled hi... CHARLES DICKENS It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test fo... HENRY JAMES I gave him a chance to hammer me on the Michigan State loss, which he did very well. He reminded me ... CHARLIE WEIS You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes, when he looked at me…I felt him. I didn’t know how much of his soul was intact, but h... CHRISTINA L. BARR The Boasting Traveler
A man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his... AESOP At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me. It w... RICHARD ANDERSON At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me. It w... RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had mean... T.J. KLUNE He showed me he wants to expand his game. I would bring him aside and tell him to take his time and ... AARON HUNGERFORD Miller had gone off on some affairs of his own, as he always did when the routine at Bryant’s was ... STELLA GIBBONS And I told you that one night wan't enough." Loki leaned down, kissing me deeply and pressing m... AMANDA HOCKING My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre... RAM KAPOOR The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot ... ERIN GRUWELL As he looked at me, he seemed to send a message of his own: that he would still fight for me, that h... RICHELLE MEAD The third and fourth set, I felt I was a bit living on the edge with my serve. He was getting a lot ... ANDRE AGASSI Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remem... JAMES CLAVELL If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a ... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at universit... ANTHONY HOLDEN It means a lot to me that someone who knows the game so much and has been around the game for so lon... JOEY CABRET Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen... EMMUSKA ORCZY It's tough playing in this environment as a freshman, but he held his team in the game late. His pla... CORY SCHNEIDER I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His ow... SACHIN TENDULKAR The sword was called Kaledvoulc'h, which means hard lightning, though Igraine prefers to call it Exc... BERNARD CORNWELL This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him ... VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is as... HOLLY MARIE COMBS He talked to me a lot about problems he was having. Sometimes he was just depressed. He hated Hollyw... FRANK MINUCCI If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with re... STEPHEN KING When he wasn't making quirky jokes about his mother like this—it happened more than once—... OLIVIA SUDJIC My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been ab... FREDDIE PRINZE, JR. Adam finally sat down on one of the pews. Laying his cheek against the smooth back of it, he looked ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Joshua had always been able to get away with things—things for which he should never have been for... HAZEL BUTLER His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. BRUNO BAUER This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all ... MARCEL PROUST He was a strong family man who loved his wife and son dearly. He believed that family was important.... CLAYTON DOWNING My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying "I love you." His love had to do with th... BILL COSBY His man had come out on me and the defense was rotating the big man back on Lawrence. So I hit Lawre... CHRIS HERNANDEZ He was always willing to help me out. He helped me out so much, I had to bring him in. BILL WYCO Feast of the Conversion of Paul The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood al... C. H. DODD Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not... WERNER HERZOG Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is be... JON LANDAU It’s complicated, and I won’t pretend that part of me still feels betrayed by what he did. But o... KAYLEA CROSS He was definitely ahead of his age, way ahead of his age. He was a very driven young man at an early... DAVE LUNDEY I’ll be your family now,” he says. “I love you,” I say. I said that once, before I... VERONICA ROTH I never saw Jim as a man who really lived for boxing at all. To me, the story was interesting becaus... RUSSELL CROWE He had just served as the best man in a recent wedding. He was an adult volunteer who helped out at ... CHRIS RICHEY I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE As he stood up and gathered his attaché case and notebook, I reminded him that it had already been ... JEVON L. MACK He was a very stern man, referred to me as his boy. I was his star pupil and he was my mentor. J. LOREN WINCE He really won it very easy. That's what I had in my mind, not to squeeze him. ALEX SOLIS Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had ... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG I wasn’t aware of just how close he’d moved to me until now. So many details came into focus. Th... RICHELLE MEAD I had asked Herm myself last week because the rumors were something that was eating at me. And he sa... LAVERANUES COLES The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad nig... MANUEL VáZQUEZ MONTALBáN I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that h... ASHWIN SANGHI Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, g... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It's been a tough three weeks for me. I had to fly in and make a quick recovery which wasn't easy. MARIA MUTOLA I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not c... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been pre... GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of... ROBIN HOBB My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he h... STEPHEN KING Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know... TEHMINA DURRANI He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing. I couldn't look at him. 'What m... KIERA CASS Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me ... FAY WRAY He smirks, shaking his head and letting his eyes wander. I watch him carefully, wondering what I can... ASHLEY EARLEY I couldn't joke about the person who'd saved me from facing absolute heartbreak at home, who fed my ... KIERA CASS He always had a big heart. Little kids would want him to sign their shirts, and he enjoyed doing tha... PETE GILLEN For me, it was easy to work with him. He was so very knowledgeable, but he was ready to listen, and ... LLOYD RICHARDS It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture... LEONARDO DA VINCI I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I was concerned about Ecclesiastic getting away, it looked like he had an easy lead. When I asked my... EIBAR COA But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had chan... NICHOLAS SPARKS Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific th... SAVO HELETA I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I ha... LOUISE POST
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GRAHAM GREENE The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs. GRAHAM GREENE They think my mother's ashes are marijuana. GRAHAM GREENE Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance ... GRAHAM GREENE We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, s... GRAHAM GREENE Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. GRAHAM The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea... BRIAN GREENE No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail. BRIAN GREENE The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i... BRIAN GREENE Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus... BRIAN GREENE Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t... BRIAN GREENE How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab... BRIAN GREENE Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na... BRIAN GREENE I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. BRIAN GREENE We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ... BRIAN GREENE There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo... BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s... BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl... BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans... BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor... BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa... BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo... BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ... SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane. ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.' NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin... NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang. BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib... ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ... ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good. ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that. ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott... ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con... ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens. ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do. ALAN GREENE