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He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her.… — Maya Banks
The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the… — Dan Brown
How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and… — Kristin Cashore
Yes, Elizabeth.” Dash kept his voice low, but let it rumble with his arousal. “I lived for you and Cassie. But while I fought to… — Lora Leigh
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the… — Claude Levi-Strauss
They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to,… — Stephen Colbert
She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind… — John Green
Summerset, don't you ever sleep?" "It's Lieutenant Dallas. She's--" Roarke dropped his briefcase, grabbed Summerset by the lapels. "Has she been hurt? Where is she?"… — Nora Roberts
Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. — Don DeLillo
My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is… — Henry Rollins
There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned,… — Ilona Andrews
she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face. — Alan Hollinghurst
The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You… — Brent Weeks
My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I… — Elie Wiesel
Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes,… — David Levithan
He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to… — Kristin Hannah
He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors. — Catherynne M. Valente
He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who… — Nicholas Sparks
...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings;… — Kristin Hannah
At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when… — Kristin Hannah
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural… — Jane Austen
Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then… — Ozzy Osbourne

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