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382 Told Her quotes by 272 unique authors
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Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could…
— Amy Tan
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Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill,…
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the…
— Rick Riordan
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Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.
— Jean Rhys
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He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him…
— Neil Gaiman
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I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.
— Banana Yoshimoto
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see you before me…
— Juliet Marillier
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Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else,…
— Cornelia Funke
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There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart."…
— Tamora Pierce
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Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.
— Markus Zusak
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Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing…
— Sebastian Faulks
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If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
— John Irving
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How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
— Samuel Beckett
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Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then…
— Shannon Hale
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You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do…
— Margaret Mitchell
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...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
— Kathryn Stockett
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People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.'…
— Patricia Briggs
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Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp…
— Rachel Caine
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I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where…
— Joan Didion
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What's so funny?" Bella mumbled. "I got food in her hair," I told her, chortling again. "I'm not going to forget this, dog," Rosalie hissed.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when…
— Jodi Picoult
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Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother,…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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