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... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk. Bret Easton Ellis
Stephen King quote: "Her hands twisted restlessly together like a pair of pink and..."
Her hands twisted restlessly together like a pair of pink and hairless animals at play. Stephen King
Jodi Picoult quote: "Her voice sounded like a string that was fraying."
Her voice sounded like a string that was fraying. Jodi Picoult
Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board. Edith Wharton
Anya Seton quote: "Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame."
Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame. Anya Seton
C. S. Lewis quote: "Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. C. S. Lewis
Like to a maid who exquisitely turns. A promising face to him who, waiting, burns. In hell to hear her answer - so the world. Tricks all, and hints what no man ever learns. Richard Le Gallienne
Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the opposite: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as "mushy. Alain de Botton
Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him. Steig Larsson
Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a small cloud of telepathic butterflies, and one of these brushed the cheek of Dwayne Hoover, nine miles away. Kurt Vonnegut
Her ivory hands on the ivory keys. Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees. Rustle their pale leaves listlessly, Or the drifting foam of a restless sea. When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze. Oscar Wilde
Haruki Murakami quote: "Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds..."
Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake. Haruki Murakami
Her heart--is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of. And she says, that lady rich and beautiful that I can never come near, 'Only put me in that empty place, only try how little I mind myself, only prove what a world of things I will do and bear for you, and... Charles Dickens
Her resolutions against Jim Meserve were just like the lightning-bugs holding a convention. They met at night and made scorning speeches against the sun and swore to do away with it and light up the world themselves. But the sun came up next morning and they all went under the leaves and owned up that the sun was boss-man in the world. Zora Neale Hurston
Like the rabbi with the red circle, she should have said "no" to everything. She should have become a raven. She didn't understand that every word the judge said was a trap, in that every word she said could easily be a stone used to shut her into that trap. Alice Hoffman

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