The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the air had been shocked out of him. Paradoxically, he felt as if his getting dumped was the only thing happening on the entire dark and silent planet, and also as if it weren't happening at all. He felt himself drifting away from the one-sided whispered conversation, wondering if maybe everything big and heartbreaking and incomprehensible is a paradox.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment... JORGE AMADO He was so close to having a bad game. He was mad at himself because he felt he wasn't helping his te... BRIAN VOYLES How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I'd caused that made him that... BROCK CLARKE Percy hated tests. Since he'd lost his memory, his whole life was one big fill-in-the-blank. He was ... RICK RIORDAN He knew today that his life was forever changed in that one moment and he was clueless as to why or ... P.J. FIALA He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to ... JOSEPH ROTH He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great d... NORBERT JACQUES He tried to remember Moon Child's eyes, but was no longer able to. He was sure of only one thing: th... MICHAEL ENDE And at the word alone, Will felt a great wave of rage and despair moving outwards from a place deep ... PHILIP PULLMAN His anger was still there, and he used it to break into her. He liked the way her eyes widened in al... RUPERT THOMSON He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. LOIS LOWRY We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, stand... MARY LAWSON I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST It was as if Jed had moved from one dimension to another. His original dimension hadn't reported him... RUPERT THOMSON He leaned closer, their faces drawing near, and he could feel the heat of her breath mingling with h... NICHOLAS SPARKS He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps ... LAINI TAYLOR As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Behold him in conceited circles sail,
Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,
In all his ... AARON HILL They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. ... NICHOLAS SPARKS He felt like the true story hadn't been told because it had been told in a one-sided way. And that's... DARRYL FRANK Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders... LISA KLEYPAS But I felt like Pablo Escobar felt like he was an honorable businessman. And when he killed people, ... CLIFF CURTIS Finally, he reached his street. It was quiet, blessedly so, and the only sound was his own groan as ... JULIA QUINN If he believed in the full complement of evil in himself, he had to believe also in a natural compul... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH He didn't want to get me away from the way I throw because I had deception coming in, we didn't want... B.J. RYAN My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied wit... TA-NEHISI COATES When he finally stopped calling, the hush felt strange. It felt like the whole world went silent whe... RACHEL VINCENT Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON He felt as if there were something missing inside him that didn't fit in with their merriment, with ... SARAH J. MAAS He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt... STEFAN ZWEIG Since Percy’d lost his memory,his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was_________________... RICK RIORDAN He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race... HERMAN MELVILLE Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what... RAINER MARIA RILKE He felt Death reaching out to him. 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DAVID VISE The want for that kiss had shocked him more than the interruption, and he fell back into the chair, ... KIM HARRISON She tilted her head, looking back down at Del’s notes as she absently tore the crust off her pizza... PRISCILLA GLENN He was very quiet, we would get on him a lot about yelling more and being more vocal (early in the s... DANIEL CROPPER If he passed Molitor and Rose and then challenged DiMaggio, I wouldn't be surprised. What's impressi... CHARLIE MANUEL For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away fro... CASSANDRA CLARE The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline... JOHN GREEN 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 Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music... AHMET ERTEGUN I guess part of me hoped that you'd come to me because you trusted me to help. And because maybe you... DEBORAH BLAKE It felt pretty in the moment because ... he's kind of quiet and he looks like that and dresses like ... GUS VAN SANT you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in h... BIBLE Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai... CASSANDRA CLARE It's a big deal for him because now he knows how good he is. He was extremely happy after he won. He... JARED ESALA I told him that I’d prefer him not to do that, ... He felt he could maybe get a bunt base hit and,... WILLIE RANDOLPH I told him that I'd prefer him not to do that. He felt he could maybe get a bunt base hit and, like ... WILLIE RANDOLPH We were all so proud of what he was doing, and he was proud, too. If he was going to be away from hi... KARLA HOLWERDA He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ... CASSANDRA CLARE And when Finnikin grabbed her to him and buried his face in her neck and then bent down and placed h... MELINA MARCHETTA There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven n... JEANETTE WINTERSON He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liqu... HENRY V. O'NEIL Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair besid... JAMES JOYCE He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole ... HERMAN MELVILLE It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went a... LUCAS SCOTT He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for b... 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