She Tried Quotes
89 quotes by 76 authors
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She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle.…
— Lewis Carroll
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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She…
— Oscar Wilde
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She tried to be someone people liked. She tried to be someone people disliked. But all I became was someone who didn't succeed with anything…
— Sarah Dessen
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find…
— William Faulkner
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When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.
— Terry Pratchett
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No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time and to distract her from the situation she was in,…
— Steig Larsson
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She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her…
— Milan Kundera
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You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I'm not their slave," the man mutters. "I am," I say. "That's why I killed Cato... and he killed Thresh... and he killed Clove... and…
— Suzanne Collins
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[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never…
— Julia Quinn
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Izzy," said Jace, as they neared the pond, and she jumped up and spun around. Her smile was dazzling. "Jace!" She flew at him and…
— Cassandra Clare
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She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered…
— Kate Morton
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Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it…
— Nicholas Sparks
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We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters.…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Be glad you have a mother who loves you." He was glad of that. A lot, since she was basically the only person on earth…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I shall have one, too," he told her. "So that you don't feel alone." She tried not to smile. "That is most generous of you."…
— Julia Quinn
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Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic,…
— Rick Riordan
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But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels…
— Leo Tolstoy
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