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Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find… — Stacy Schiff
If I feel ragged, my prep team seems in worse condition, knocking back coffee and sharing brightly colored little pills. As far as I can… — Suzanne Collins
Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went… — Alice Sebold
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions.… — Ezra Pound
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle,… — Richard Matheson
What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and… — Alice Munro
Advice,' DoÃ±a Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty… — Scott Lynch
They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They… — Rick Riordan
And as for the Lightwoods," Simon said, "it's not that I like them that much. I mean, I like Isabelle, and I sort of like… — Cassandra Clare
A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a… — Jim Butcher
I'd been in hairier situations than this one. Actually, it's sort of depressing, thinking how many times I'd been in them. But if experience had… — Jim Butcher
You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him… — Janet Evanovich
Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible… — Marilynne Robinson
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again. — Victor Hugo
I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus. — Jasper Fforde
The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen
He slouched back in his seat, looking tired, and leaned his face on his shoulder to look at me while he played with my hair.… — Maggie Stiefvater
Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was right to look… — Maggie Stiefvater
The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made… — Kurt Vonnegut
He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he… — Douglas Adams

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