Before Her Quotes

67 Before Her quotes by 61 unique authors

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It… — Andre Leon Talley
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.… — Henry David Thoreau
On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies… — Jhumpa Lahiri
For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it… — Henry James
…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which… — A. S. Byatt
How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see… — Amy Tan
Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go. — Daniel Woodrell
She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable… — David Wroblewski
When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before… — David Wroblewski
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his… — Virginia Woolf
She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see… — Paulo Coelho
Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself… — Frank Beddor
Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... before her consciousness slipped from her grasp and she… — J R Ward
(Unsure if she should laugh or groan, Astrid held fast to the tank before her as Zarek pushed the snowmachine to the limits. It vibrated… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Daniel's face-- the way it had been bathed in violet light when he'd carried her home this morning-- appeared before her eyes. His gleaming golden… — Lauren Kate
Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her head to the… — Paullina Simons
This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she could be anybody,… — Jandy Nelson
Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before… — Lisa Kleypas
Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do… — William Shakespeare
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her. — David Nicholls
Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air. — Carolyn Parkhurst
Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous,… — Anna Akhmatova
You're beautiful this morning," Archer said, stopping before her, kissing her nose. "You're impossibly sweet in my shirt." That might be but she felt like… — Kristin Cashore

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