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I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought… — Sue Monk Kidd
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a… — Tom Clancy
The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their… — Rick Riordan
Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears. — Louise Erdrich
Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is… — John Piper
He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree… — Virginia Woolf
Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with… — Audrey Niffenegger
It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see… — Barack Obama
He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he… — Elizabeth Strout
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they… — Woody Guthrie
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a… — Elizabeth Strout
It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing… — Toni Morrison
The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now… — Jeffrey Eugenides
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war. — Cormac McCarthy
It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated… — J.R.R. Tolkien
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who… — Margaret Mitchell
One filled with joy preaches without preaching. — Mother Teresa
Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He… — Jodi Picoult
A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with… — Reif Larsen
...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this… — Gary Paulsen
I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled.… — Janet Evanovich
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer. — Sherman Alexie
I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly. There's someone out there who will one day find me and fall in… — Perry Moore
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I… — Bret Easton Ellis

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