She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.
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Related Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed f... MELINA MARCHETTA Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best. MELINA MARCHETTA Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai... CASSANDRA CLARE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES She had thought she'd already reached her capacity for pain and had no room inside her for more. But... KRISTIN CASHORE They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her... AYN RAND No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... J.D. ROBB But Julian's blood was different. When she saw it she thought of him, shot and crumpling, the way hi... CASSANDRA CLARE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to d... JANE AUSTEN He shook his head in disbelief. He would cook and take her to his place. He was about to break two o... MARCIA WEBER MARTINS He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling... ALICE HOFFMAN Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substi... THOMAS HARDY He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her... ERNEST HEMINGWAY She had missed him so long now, that the feeling had become a part of her. As each day passed, the m... COCO J. GINGER My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wa... KIM HARRISON He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and ki... JOE HILL His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and ange... JODI PICOULT Her body had been asleep but now it was wide awake and very aware of every inch of the Iceman. She'd... CHRISTINE FEEHAN She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the... THOMAS HARDY I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been liv... MATT HAIG She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in h... KATE MORTON So he found her. Most people would have said she was relaxed. But then, Roarke thought, most people ... J.D. ROBB We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL She needed to come out. I was kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place and that might have been... BRIAN FANELLI At the time he had closed in upon himself, denying her a place of entry. She was tenacious, aggressi... AMINATTA FORNA Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now a... THOMAS HARDY It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a f... ELIZABETH HOYT She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h... JULIET MARILLIER Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the... ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about h... JEANNE DUPRAU Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting th... JANE AUSTEN We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd kn... KRISTIN CASHORE He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great d... NORBERT JACQUES She had never been in love before. She'd tried to save herself the pain, but all her pretending and ... MELANIE DICKERSON The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner... NORM TOMLINSON The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrific... NORM TOMLINSON I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw. HARUKI MURAKAMI You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love. SARVESH JAIN He was very quiet. The other thing was that he had a shell about him, and you couldn't get to know h... BOB WARD As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had n... PAULO COELHO He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She was breathtaking in her beauty and her human spirit, he thought, unable to speak as he gazed upo... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking... PAULA BRACKSTON He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months ... A.S. BYATT 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 ...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered... PAUL HOFFMAN There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspecte... LEO TOLSTOY But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT As the sun fell below the horizon, Sir Luckless emerged from the waters with the glory of his triump... J.K. ROWLING Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would... GEORGE MACDONALD From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE They both had a broken heart, but she turned out to be cold hearted, he didn't lose hope because tha... DAVID BENTO GUERRA She stopped for the duration of a glance around her, as if to recapture the place, but there was no ... AYN RAND The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her l... LEO TOLSTOY She had always looked like some confectioner's fantasia, a wee thing created of spun sugar, gossamer... ELOISA JAMES She wanted to write to him. Tell him she was glad he was back, that he was alive, that he was home a... COCO J. GINGER Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. A twinge of fear entered Gwenwhyfar’s heart. It was the first she had heard of the sea farms lying... JENNIFER MCKEITHEN She did believe in God. And she believed that Jane was with him. And suddenly her pain and grief bec... LOUISE PENNY She always had her priorities in the right place. CLAUDIA STUART He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin... J.K. ROWLING She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he someti... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH She has the most bizarre and beautiful soul I had ever seen. Her eyes shined always like a�... AKSHAY VASU Anne, look here. Can’t we be good friends?” For a moment Anne hesitated. She had an odd, ne... L.M. MONTGOMERY Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in re... CASSANDRA CLARE
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I only remember what I have learnt. PATRICK WHITE It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the... GILBERT WHITE I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point... EDMUND WHITE I think things for us are really coming together at this point. Our distance events are getting much... AARON WHITE We're going to win -- I promise you. AARON WHITE