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At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in… — Charles Dickens
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true… — Charles Dickens
What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the… — Peter S. Beagle
I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him… — Aravind Adiga
This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell. — Jack Kerouac
They called themselves The Souls. They told Ms. Olinski that they were The Souls before they were a team, but she told them that they… — E L Konigsburg
She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. "The arks are after me! The arks are after me!… — Ted Dekker
Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a… — Gabrielle Zevin
Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully… — Erich Maria Remarque
I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself… — John Knowles
HE was standing across the street, staring at her with a look of shock and dismay. One look in Oliver's eyes and she knew he… — Melissa de la Cruz
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? — Dante Alighieri
I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each… — Isabel Allende
Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted… — John Waters
In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every… — Nicholas Sparks
A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the… — Lisa Kleypas
Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given,… — Mark Helprin
Winter looked at Leven. Leven looked right back at her. Winter's cheeks burned red and her green eyes outshone Leven's. The two of them stared… — Obert Skye
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when… — J. R. Moehringer
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human… — H.G. Wells
The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely the same tone… — Jennifer Weiner
Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's… — Nora Roberts
We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so… — Mitch Albom
Sharley felt his strength ebbing away, and his weak leg throbbed painfully, but then a tingling sensation thrilled through his frame and the fighting blood… — Stuart Hill
And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging,… — Neil Gaiman

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