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“She’d always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn’t want it.”

— Gillian Flynn

“She thought she was a sensible girl. But some kind of love had taken hold of her and refused to let her go, and…

— Harriet Evans

“Maybe she’d always wished to be beautiful and didn’t quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn’t say she was and more…

— Mona Simpson

“when she was able to imagine a different life that might have been hers, the kind of life she knew that she'd always really…

— Nicholas Sparks

“The desire for her was a taste he had acquired with the first sip. What would become of him when he could no longer…

— Deana James

“Did she ever think of that, that things experienced in ways different from hers were equally valuable? That the way that he chose to…

— Elizabeth Berg

“They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“She had something that is gone from the world, from the female world. A sweetness without sentimentality, a limpidity without naivety. She was so…

— John Fowles

“And the strange thing was: I knew that most people didn't see her as I did--if anything, found her a bit odd-looking wth her…

— Donna Tartt

“What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“He was quite possibly the most desirable man she had ever had the good fortune to lay her eyes upon and she had to…

— C.P. Mandara

“fact. Of course, she always went and spoiled the appeal by opening her mouth. In his humble experience, the world had yet to produce…

— Gail Carriger