Jane Austen quote: "There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way."

The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humo...
P.D. JAMES

Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!
CHARLES DICKENS

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HENRY JAMES

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KELLY JONES

To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS...

And in an essential way, this was what he was most ashamed of: not his poor understanding of sex, no...
HANYA YANAGIHARA

Not only had he wanted her in his personal territory, he’d just wanted her with him. Earlier, her ...
NALINI SINGH

He asked if we could sit in private. He had this letter. It explained his life, where he was from, h...
BECKY GARLAND

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

It's just so sad that he had [lost] his life trying to help her.
BEVERLY HEADDS

He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular dis...
RICK RIORDAN

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

Danny - his story is just amazing, how he went in there trying to free that girl and not being able ...
DAVE WILKINS

It had been a long time since a woman had aroused his interest as Amelia Hathaway had. The moment he...
LISA KLEYPAS

Don't let any one show you the ropes to the world because usually it will be in the shape of a noose...
ANDONI GARCIA

He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to ...
JOSEPH ROTH

Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...

Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen...
EMMUSKA ORCZY

She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h...
JULIET MARILLIER

When I had him in the Olympics in the summer of 2004, after every practice and after every game thro...
DEL HARRIS

He closed his eyes. This bed was a wedding gift from friends he had not seen in years. He tried to r...
IAN MCEWAN

Once when Monty was in kindergarten, I had read to him and was trying to get him to go to sleep. He ...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Royce understood then why she had come: she had come to finish the task her relatives had begun; to ...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT

It wasn’t simply his choosing to be alone that kept him that way; it was almost a condition of his...
TERRY BROOKS

Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai...
CASSANDRA CLARE

When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN

All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had ...
JULIET MARILLIER

He knew all he had to do was beat the guy in front of him. He went out there and wrestled his match.
AARON SARRA

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his re...
GEORGE ELIOT

Keith had it a little better than most kids here because he had two parents in the same household wh...
JEFF HILL

It suddenly made sense. Only twice in his life had he felt this inexplicable, almost mystical attrac...
JULIA QUINN

And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encounte...
J.K. ROWLING

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Dorian walked slowly back to his rooms, his heart racing. He could still feel her lips on his, smell...
SARAH J. MAAS

Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, ha...
CHARLES DICKENS

From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent...
CHARLES DICKENS

His mind drifted back to times past. He missed the companionship of his old pack. He had grown up in...
ALAN KINROSS

Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some...
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Aerric took another sip of his whiskey as his manservant left the room. His thoughts had distracted ...
BRYNN MYERS

As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who h...
GUY SAJER

Even though he had lost his eyesight, he kept on top of things by listening to public radio and CNN.
BOB FISHER

It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ...
D.H. LAWRENCE

And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stoo...
J.K. ROWLING

she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the...
PAULO COELHO

He tried to remember Moon Child's eyes, but was no longer able to. He was sure of only one thing: th...
MICHAEL ENDE

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — no throu...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

When two months were up, I called his landlord. His landlord said he hadn't paid his rent and no one...
JANE MARSHALL

Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a...
JANE AUSTEN

He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided...
KARL MARLANTES

He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months ...
A.S. BYATT

And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
BIBLE

Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER

The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI

If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS...

i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not throu...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

He had the strength and the desire and the passion and all that sort of thing within his game. He al...
JOHN ADSHEAD

...Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had h...
KIMBERLY GARDNER

One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES

He had hold of the climber's climbing line in two hands and he was pulling down with all of his weig...
ANDREW PETERSON

Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was ...
LISA KLEYPAS

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in ...
LAURA HILLENBRAND

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS

How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ...
STEPHEN AMBROSE

Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he h...
ALICE MILLER

There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they...
AVIJEET DAS

When he first got down there, he was 'The Golden Child.' Everyone loved him, ... He had his whole fa...
JAMIE SHARPER

He can hum the music in his old man's quivering voice, but he prefers it in his head, where it lives...
EVAN FALLENBERG

He never did rid himself of the feeling that he had been denied his rightful place. It kept him from...
WARREN EYSTER

His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y...
CAROLYN JEWEL

He had had to be father and mother to her, and he had taken to his tasks with determination, seeking...
PAULA BRACKSTON

She was breathtaking in her beauty and her human spirit, he thought, unable to speak as he gazed upo...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE

I liked everything I read about Braddock, ... I liked who he was before he was a champion, who he wa...
RUSSELL CROWE

Nick is so hungry for a championship. I remember when we lost to San Antonio in the Western Conferen...
AVERY JOHNSON

I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had mean...
T.J. KLUNE

He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin...
J.K. ROWLING

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL

There was a faint note of pride in his voice that Harry had rarely heard there before. “He thought...
J.K. ROWLING

He had lost a lot of weight. He definitely had to hold his pants up with his hands.
LOUIE FERNANDEZ

The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

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AESOP

Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once t...
HANNAH STORM

The young man’s mind was carried away by his growing passion for dreams. One looking at him would ...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON

Pantheon above save him, he might care for the woman more than he'd ever bargained for. The brash an...
ELISE KOVA

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as...
HARRIET ANN JACOBS

Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN

On sentry duty with Hazel, he would try to take his mind off it. He loved spending time with her. He...
RICK RIORDAN

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d ...
TOBIAS WOLFF

Where he had failed, I would triumph.
Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of t...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN

And not only of even mainly because of the protection it had given him - it was thanks to his own st...
MICHAEL ENDE

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountain...
PAULO COELHO

The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP

The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in th...
BIBLE

The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to d...
JANE AUSTEN

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY

Owen folded his arms around Morgan to steady her when she crashed into him, and was enveloped by her...
KRISTEN CASEY

It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test fo...
HENRY JAMES

I've been trying to tell him to do the dives that he does. He hasn't had his great meet yet. He has ...
CAROLYN PETERSON

There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

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