S.C. Parris quote: "I do not know…who turned me, your Grace.”<br />His downcast gaze said it all: How terribly sad.<br />For she had known all her life as a Vampire it was most…disgraceful to never know the one who turned you; that was where a Vampire could find a sense of great peace amidst the life that was the constant need for blood. She had only passed by these remarks, this cloud on her person for being ‘Princess of the Vampires,’ Dracula’s special child…"

It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quit...
CHARLES DICKENS

Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been with...
MARY BALOGH

No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ...
J.D. ROBB

Abby touched her palm to my cheek. "You know what, Mr. Maddox?"
"What, baby?"
Her expressi...
JAMIE MCGUIRE

She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ...
ALICE MUNRO

Where was Sam?
It hit her full force then, the shocking realization. Was this how Sam felt? Was...
MICHAEL GRANT

For Lucie," Peter said quietly, the flame of a gilded saint's candle fluttering in his hand."
"...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT

Inej turned to go. Kaz seized her hand, keeping it on the railing. He didn't look at her. "Stay", he...
LEIGH BARDUGO

So--what's it like, being a vampire?"

"Aline!" Isabelle looked appalled. "You can't just ...
CASSANDRA CLARE

But how will I know who my Soulmate is?” Brida felt that this was one of the most important questi...
PAULO COELHO

I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me t...
INGRID BETANCOURT

….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since ...
LAURIE MATTHEW

Absently, she brushed back some of the hair from her face, and she saw as Jaguar's eyes followed how...
AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES

I love you," he said.

She looked up at him, her eyes shiny and black, then looked away. "...
RAINBOW ROWELL

Doug returned five minutes later and shook his head. "Sorry kid. She's single, but she doesn't think...
RICHELLE MEAD

She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she loved one of them most of all.

And thi...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

Do you know what they call themselves, all these people?"
Alyss shook her head. How could she ...
FRANK BEDDOR

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me t...
MILAN KUNDERA

You are so much more than I bargained for,” I confessed, which gained her attention. “I knew I w...
C.A. HARMS

A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S...
METTE IVIE HARRISON

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Astrid had gone to look at the burn zone. Doing the right thing.
Kids had yelled at her. Demand...
MICHAEL GRANT

In that case" Tessa said, feeling hot blood rise to her face,"I think I would prefer it if you calle...
CASSANDRA CLARE

She knew it was time,
What for was the mystery
but focused; she remained.
She turne...
NIKKI ROWE

What is this all about,' asked Sai, but her mouth couldn't address her ear in the tumult; her mind c...
KIRAN DESAI

And here she was. Lying on the floor of a dusty, empty, locked room thinking how grateful she felt.<...
KAREN LUELLEN

And the child, Francie Nolan, was of all the Rommelys and all the Nolans. She had the violent weakne...
BETTY SMITH

She shook her head. 'Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with...
SARAH DESSEN

Why did you pull the arrow out?” she demanded, pulling her sweater over her head. She had a tank t...
CASSANDRA CLARE

I'm not very good with anything physical...' she began as they turned down a hallway she had never s...
MICHELLE ZINK

What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
I don't k...
JACK KEROUAC

You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot...
ERICA BAUERMEISTER

They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

I’ll come back,” she promised. “I’ll always come back to you.”
“I know,” he said ...
TIFFANY REISZ

Circenn moved swiftly, intending to catch the tear upon his finger, kiss it away, then kiss away all...
KAREN MARIE MONING

Her hands warming on tea looked like chunks of knitting a child had felted in grubby palms. Enough d...
LAUREN GROFF

She had made her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most pa...
SARAH DESSEN

I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

Wendy was a smart, kind, warm, funny, talented, generous, successful woman - that we all know. But p...
ANDRE BISHOP

You know,” she said dreamily, passing over his question, “you’re not nearly as handsome as Lor...
LISA KLEYPAS

Eena turned aside, breathing shallowly as her mind raced with questions. She was glad he couldn’t ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

Ophelia,' said the boy. He said it very quietly. She didn't like the way he said that at all. He sou...
KAREN FOXLEE

She can sense things . . . Things the rest of us can't.She only knew there was a strange feel to you...
RICHELLE MEAD

For all his determination to keep her at arm's length, they had literally leaned on each other. He c...
ROBERT GALBRAITH

What are you doing?" she asked.

Grimacing, he considered returning his mouth to hers and ...
LORRAINE HEATH

She tossed her towel on her dresser and turned to the bed where shed left her PJs. Only it wasn't ju...
C.C. HUNTER

Was it ever . . .” She winced, wished she could muffle the need to ask. “Before, with anyone els...
J.D. ROBB

The King and Queen did the best they could. They hired the most superior tutors and governesses to t...
PATRICIA C. WREDE

Sierra felt full of hope and confidence in God. She knew who she was. And she knew Whose she was. ROBIN JONES GUNN

One of them has to break,” the queen said to the princess. “Only then can it begin.”

SARAH J. MAAS

I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w...
JOHN SCALZI

A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite ...
ECKHART TOLLE

You bit de Quincey," he said. "You fool. He's a vampire. You know what it means to bite a vampire." ...
CASSANDRA CLARE

He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular p...
PAULO COELHO

Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned ...
PAUL BURRELL

When, some months later, Zoltan emailed me about his decision to run for president, I immediately ca...
MARK O'CONNELL

All Julie has to do is explain to her friends that she's using it to individually seal each item tha...
LEE GOLDBERG

Did she make you laugh? Did she love you as much as you loved her? Did she protect you and warm you ...
JUDITH KRANTZ

There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would...
GEORGE MACDONALD

Why the hell would I bring you?" she exclaimed. All her anger turned at his presumption. It w...
RICHELLE MEAD

Valkyrie made a face. "Bloody vampires."
Ryan sat forward. "That was a vampire? That guy who lo...
DEREK LANDY

What's that you're holding?" he asked, noticing the pamphlet, still rolled up in her left hand.
CASSANDRA CLARE

...She wasn't anyone special. She wasn't that brave, that clever or that strong. She was just somebo...
ALAN MOORE

She narrowed her eyes at him. She wanted to tell him that it was his fault, that she would ne...
KIMBERLY DERTING

The car came opposite her, and she curtsied so low that recovery was impossible, and she sat down in...
E.F. BENSON

You aren’t a vampire.” Silver's voice mirrored his shock. She repeated the phrase with a huge sm...
KASI BLAKE

The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She...
HAN KANG

His breath caught, harsh enough that she looked over her shoulder.

But his eyes weren't o...
SARAH J. MAAS

Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,...
DANIELLE STEEL

No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."
"To make sure Katniss is still...
SUZANNE COLLINS

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

There was a girl I knew who always wanted to be the one to stand out from the crowd
Always belie...
LINDSAY LOHAN

Julita was being spinned like a top by a drop-dead-gorgeous Dominicano. Later she told us that he’...
ISABEL LOPEZ

And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye.

Mr. Penderwick looked out the...
JEANNE BIRDSALL

Peter..."
He straightened, his back to her like a wall. Then, slowly, he turned his face toward...
SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT

She seemed dressed in all of me, stretched across my shame.
All the torment and the pain leaked...
SLIPKNOT

Do you love him?”
I jumped out of my skin. She was standing right beside me. “Who?”
JULIE ANNE PETERS

It was at that moment Stephanie became acutely aware of the paradox of the police wife.
She mu...
KAREN RODWILL SOLOMON

He only allowed himself a quick glance at her, knowing as soon as he saw her that she was the kind o...
ADI ALSAID

The repetition of the days did something to you. You knew the monotony, but you couldn't fight it. Y...
DANA SPIOTTA

Do you want to marry him?" Peter stopped in front of her, pressing close.
"You know I don't." SARAH BLAKLEY-CARTWRIGHT

She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, whi...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

She came towards me with a juicy gash between her legs that smelled like my best friend's sister" DAVE MATTHES

Adieu," he said, "this is goodbye. I'll never forget you, never."
She stood silent. He looked a...
IRèNE NéMIROVSKY

Coraline was woken by the mid-morning sun, full on her face.

For a moment she felt utterl...
NEIL GAIMAN

While this is all very amusing, the kiss that will free the girl is the kiss that she most desires,�...
CASSANDRA CLARE

Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, sh...
SARAH J. MAAS

You really love her don't you," she said.
With all my heart."
She looked as sad as I'd eve...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The Story of the Woman with Three Brothers"

A woman once had three brothers. They all had...
LISA SEE

Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are ...
CAROLINE STEVERMER

You're cute when you're worried," she muttered. "Your eyebrows get all scrunched together."
"Y...
RICK RIORDAN

What are you?' She asked. He shot her a brief glance and looked away. He stared at the scenery of th...
SHIRLEY A. MARTIN

Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who w...
COURTNEY CAROLA

You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma...
PATRICK NESS

There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

As his ears rang and his heart broke for her, he stayed strong against the gale force she let loose....
J.R. WARD

Nina Zenik, as soon as I figure out where you've put my knives, we're going to have words."
LEIGH BARDUGO

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ...
AYN RAND

The Goddess spoke to all the dead. She was beloved for it. It seemed she passed on that gift to you....
LEANNA RENEE HIEBER

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