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“The tide of her exhilaration drained from her, leaving her exhausted and heartsick. She would have bound the entire city, made them all into…

— Helene Wecker

“It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“...she forced herself to relax her shoulders and affect a tone of bored insouciance that the Widow would have approved, and said, "I shall…

— Donna Thorland

“At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?”

— Colum McCann

“She wanted to stop, but she was riding a wave of memory and it was carrying her backward to that night, that room, and…

— Philip Reeve

“She remembered lying in the crevasse, buried by snow. She thought of that perfect silence. Also now, like then, no one knew where she…

— Paolo Giordano

“But her ears had pricked when he’d introduced himself to her overseer as Chaol Westfall, Captain of the Royal Guard, and suddenly, the sky…

— Sarah J. Maas

“It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath. A set…

— Katherine Rundell

“There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a fairy tale:…

— Zoë Heller

“She was terrified. She was beginning to realise that after long months of selfcontrol, the pressure, the earthquake, the volcano of her soul was…

— Paulo Coelho

“His strong jaw line was clenched tight, and a pair of startingly cool green eyes picked her apart with scientific precision. There was something…

— Frankie Rose

“She didn't usually mind being just a bit in over her head. She generally flailed like a becalmed ship, irritable and purposeless and panicked,…

— Julie Anne Long