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These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I… — Alice Sebold
When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and… — Graham Greene
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The… — N. Scott Momaday
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing… — Charles Dickens
I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the… — Steve Erickson
He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in… — Neil Gaiman
The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the… — William Goldman
A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was a reaction to… — Josip Broz Tito
I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window.… — Doris Lessing
Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the… — Deepak Chopra
I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there — Leslie Feinberg
She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates… — Paulo Coelho
So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the… — Italo Calvino
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.… — John Donne
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not… — Stephen Hawking
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things… — Zora Neale Hurston
The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!"… — Roald Dahl
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor. — Barbara Mertz
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day… — Zadie Smith
Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of… — Jeanne DuPrau
Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it,… — Salvador Plascencia
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. — Merlin Stone

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