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She had a new bracelet on, stacked with emeralds brighter than her eyes. I hate rich people.


Helen Oyeyemi

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JOAN RIVERS She had the prettiest eyes
& prettiest smile with
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bruis...
TANYA GAMBHIR A look came into his dark eyes, a new expression she could'nt decipher. He stroked her lips with his...
THEA HARRISON The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in h...
JODI PICOULT What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ...
JERRY SPINELLI She had fire dancing in her eyes as she assaulted him with her serpent's tongue. Tonight she was not...
SHAKUITA JOHNSON She can kill with a smile,She can wound with her eyes.
BILLY JOEL She had stars in her eyes and galaxies in her veins
ROSIE PERRY She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.
MARKUS ZUSAK Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical...
MURIEL SPARK Less than two weeks after her surgery, I took her to Target. She had her little yellow mask on.
DEBBIE HORNE So he found her. Most people would have said she was relaxed. But then, Roarke thought, most people ...
J.D. ROBB Another man's heart is full of hardships. Mine is easier. So is yours. With knowledge I see that onl...
KAYLA RAE She struggled early; I think she had two or three turnovers right off the bat. I yanked her tail out...
JEFF KNOY She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes.
GIOVANNIE DE SADELEER From the moment I had Rachael on my show earlier this year, I knew she had it. She has that connecti...
OPRAH WINFREY With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Well, Helen, our eyes are pretty,
BILL LEONARD She has the ability to get the most out of her kids. People don't know that she did a lot more than ...
CARL WILLIAMS I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed...
JORI NUNES She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent h...
ARUNDHATI ROY She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.
STUART JAFFE Jane," I said quietly.
She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.
"Yes, Mary? F...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Hayley had two strikes on her, and I told her she needed to just center up. And she ended up with a ...
LORI ALEXANDER Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me,...
LEO TOLSTOY She opened her eyes a few times today. She didn't speak, but she did seem to focus on her son, Danie...
EMILY BAZELON At some point, she didn't know when or for how long, she found herself lost, lost in a song. Her eye...
JAMES MORRIS The satyr gave me a sympathetic glance. She was shorter than me by a foot, with large hazel eyes tha...
JULIE KAGAWA Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
THOMAS MOORE I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
STEVE MARTIN I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over...
COLIN QUINN Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for ...
C. JOYBELL C. The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only...
YASUNARI KAWABATA I know. You could never hid anything. Your eyes always gave you away. You had the most wonderful eye...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO I thought Shannon had a decent day by her standards. She had a tough time with her putts, but for he...
CLINT WALLMAN She has the most bizarre and beautiful soul I had ever seen. Her eyes shined always like a�...
AKSHAY VASU She looks really tired. She had really black circles under her eyes and her hair was kind of messed ...
ELLEN KNICKMEYER She had always looked like some confectioner's fantasia, a wee thing created of spun sugar, gossamer...
ELOISA JAMES She says a lot with her eyes. (relating especially to Maureen O'Hara in her movies)
RICHARD LYLES I'll bet even Helen of Troy had to have at least a little sunshine in her disposition.
LORETTA YOUNG Jayden cried out, "Shit, are you pissing on me?"

With her eyes wide, she shook her head. ...
TONI ALEO I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
LARRY NIVEN Her problem was physical and she had no technical skills. But we worked with her and helped her thro...
RON ANDERSON She was an ocean, confined in a coffee mug. And she had the galaxies, confined in her pretty eyes.
AKSHAY VASU Pausing with the teacup near her lips, Helen said, "I would rather marry you. It will be an adventur...
LISA KLEYPAS Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the...
ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I can...
CAROL LEE And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress ...
BIBLE When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over ...
MARY STREET I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love
AUGUST STRINDBERG Reyna set her dagger on the table. Percy had the vague feeling he’d seen her before. Her hair was ...
RICK RIORDAN My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Shelly shook her head and made sure she had plenty of space so that she wouldn’t hit anything. As ...
NATHAN REESE MAHER O, she is rich in beauty, only poor that, when she dies, with beauty dies her store.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tiffany is a good player and she had 14 points in the first half. We finally did what we had to do i...
DALE MEIER She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. "A...
SHERRILYN KENYON Her eyes widened. “Ooh… was it hate sex? I’ve always wanted to have hate sex.
JULIE JAMES When you've lived as long as I have," he said, eyes heavy-lidded but definitely on her, "you learn t...
NALINI SINGH My rich Diana. Fly me to the moon with you. Dance among the stars.
Treacle. Romantic hogwash. ...
DEAN KOONTZ My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started...
REGINA BRETT I like the idea of you on an island..."
"Oh...why's that?" She's squinting up at me, her eyes b...
WILLOW MADISON Once you lock eyes with her, you are mesmerized. Ever since I met her she enchanted and inspired me.
JOHN GALLIANO When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outs...
AMY TAN Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold ...
JESSICA KHOURY I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
LEE IACOCCA I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way
LEE IACOCCA She has been in six months, and she has already had more controversies than the average congresspers...
LARRY SABATO The male's diamond eyes locked on Payne, and though she hadn't seen him in forever, she knew who he ...
J.R. WARD With fireflies in her eyes
She blew all her words into his mouth with a stroke of a poignant Ki...
ANKITMISHRA She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he...
BERNARDO BATIZ She looked so professional. She had tears in her eyes--praising the Lord and all that good stuff.
LILA JOHNSON After the storm, she kept up with so many people, although she had her own problems.
PAT DESCHER There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them ...
ED KOCH If a woman stands in a kitchen rubbing her eyes and pouring coffee with no one there to see her, doe...
MARYA HORNBACHER She had nothing to lose, so I believe she was betting. He had everything to lose. That's why I don't...
JASON KING Chelsea did a new vault and stood it up. She did a half (on), 11/2 (off). It's worth more than her o...
LESLIE GOMES As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she reali...
JODI PICOULT When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's s...
AYELET WALDMAN People loved her. She had a million friends.
DEBBIE DOOL He is so beautiful," she thought, aching from the sadness that she saw in his eyes. In the late-afte...
SHIRA ANTHONY She looks at him (Andrew) with such love in her eyes.
APRIL GODRA Rose lived the same life I did, but she doesn’t have PTSD. No bad dreams, no missing memories. Som...
PAULA STOKES She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her
SUSAN ENGBERG Evan stopped completely. He was staring at her with those intense eyes. Staring right into her. Just...
KATE BRIAN I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I wo...
ANGELA RICHARDSON You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class ...
DONALD TRUMP By five A.M., her eyes were gritty and her head ached. The single hour’s sleep she had managed to ...
J.D. ROBB I don't hire anybody who's not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need t...
PAUL "BEAR" BRYANT The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effort...
ORHAN PAMUK She rolled her eyes. But she understood.
CHRIS NICHOLS Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I woul...
PAT CONROY I held her and I asked if she was OK, and her eyes were open but she didn't answer,
BOB PACK I'm not anywhere close to being a mom, but I hope that people leave her alone so she and her husband...
HILARY DUFF I don't hate you, Jace."
"I don't hate you, either."
She looked up at him, relieved. "I'm ...
CASSANDRA CLARE I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in pa...
ERIC STOLTZ If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse...
VERONICA ROTH Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,...
DANIELLE STEEL A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a...
DENNIS LEHANE 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

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HELEN KELLER All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
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HELEN HAYES Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
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HELEN HAYES Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
HELEN HAYES There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'...
HELEN HAYES Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born...
HELEN HAYES The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not importan...
HELEN HAYES I cry out for order and find it only in art.
HELEN HAYES Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
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HELEN HAYES Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, howe...
HELEN HAYES The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
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HELEN KELLER My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
HELEN KELLER As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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HELEN KELLER It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I ha...
HELEN KELLER We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
HELEN KELLER I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that mea...
HELEN FISHER The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those thing...
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HELEN FISHER Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. (Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course...
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HELEN FIELDING Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others
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HELEN HAYES Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes ...
HELEN KELLER A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of...
HELEN ROWLAND Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature -- ...
HELEN ROWLAND One man's folly is often another man's wife.
HELEN ROWLAND Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange ...
HELEN KELLER I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppos...
HELEN KELLER Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
HELEN KELLER We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the...
HELEN KELLER I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing par...
HELEN ALFREDSSON Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a ...
HELEN ROWLAND In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
HELEN ROWLAND There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king am...
HELEN KELLER God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
HELEN KELLER When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the ...
HELEN ROWLAND No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
HELEN ROWLAND If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows
HELEN NIELSEN The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
HELEN KELLER I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and becaus...
HELEN KELLER Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow
HELEN KELLER Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free s...
HELEN KELLER I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
HELEN KELLER If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin o...
HELEN KELLER The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the he...
HELEN KELLER Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often ...
HELEN KELLER