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I shut up everything inside. Everything." Words ground out through clenched teeth. "I thought if I could hold it, just hold it, it would be… — Nalini Singh
Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the… — Sylvia Brownrigg
Rose Hathaway: "Was he right?” Dimitri Belikov: "Who?” Rose Hathaway: "Victor…he said it couldn't have worked. The necklace.” Dimitri Belikov: "What do you mean?” Rose… — Richelle Mead
His hands as he worked were deft and sure, but so gentle -- he was being careful not to hurt me any more than he… — L.A. Weatherly
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest… — Frank Zappa
She slid out from under his arm, and picked up his shirt from the floor. When she put it on, it failed to meet in… — Jennifer Crusie
Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I looked down at my clothes. They were slashed to pieces and full of bullet holes, but I was fine. Not a mark on me.… — Rick Riordan
Is Tyson okay?" I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though "peanut butter"… — Rick Riordan
She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he… — Nora Roberts
She should leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart. — Sharon Shinn
How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head? — Chris Wooding
Its beyond him now. its time for you to do you own thing." "My thing? my thing only worked if Grace was here to make… — Maggie Stiefvater
The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that… — Maggie Stiefvater
Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer… — Jim Butcher
It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer… — Maggie Stiefvater
She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger. — Victor Hugo
The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day… — Haruki Murakami
This kind of thing always amazed Ginny--people who just walked away from institutions. People who left school when they didn't see the point. Aunt Peg… — Maureen Johnson
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was… — Annie Dillard
Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The exceptions were two men a little ahead of them, standing just outside the Three Broomsticks. One was very tall and thin; squinting through his… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow. — Sarah Dessen
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder! — Patricia Highsmith
Did you live here?" Leif asked. I nodded. "For two years"."Where did you stay?" "I had a room in Valek's suite." Leif shot me an… — Maria V. Snyder

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