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Yes. I—I can't help liking her—just a little bit! She's not an ungenerous nature; and I am so glad her difficulties have all suddenly ended." She explained how Arabella had been summoned back, and would be enabled to retrieve her position. "I was referring to our old question. What Arabella has been saying to me has made me feel more than ever how hopelessly vulgar an institution legal marriage is—a sort of trap to catch a man—I can't bear to think of it. I wish I hadn't promised to let you... Thomas Hardy
Michael Ondaatje quote: "A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she..."
A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it Michael Ondaatje
A young girl, a freshman, I met in a bar in Cambridge my junior year at Harvard told me early one fall that “Life is full of endless possibilities.” I tried valiantly nog to choke on the beer nuts I was chewing while she gushed this kidney stone of wisdom, and I calmly washed them down with the rest of a Heineken, smiled and concentrated on the dart game that was going on in the corner. Needless to say, she did not live to see her sophomore year. That winter, her body was found floating in... Bret Easton Ellis
If a young women once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in love with her; for if she believes herself charming charming enough to captive him, 'tis natural to expect the effects of it. Daniel Defoe
Nora Roberts quote: "And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on..."
And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue. Nora Roberts
Madeline began hearing people saying "Derrida". She heard them saying "Lyotard" and "Foucault" and "Deleuze" and "Baudrillard". That most of these people were those she instinctually disapproved of- upper-middle-class kids who wore Doc Martens and anarchist symbols- made Madeline dubious about the value of their enthusiasm. Jeffrey Eugenides
The colour which had been driven from her face, returned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of delight added lustre to her eyes, as she thought for that space of time that his affection and wishes must still be unshaken. But she would not be secure". Jane Austen
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two ot three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit frimly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan... Lois McMaster Bujold
I'd remind you of that restaurant around the corner except..." His gaze flicked over the robe that dipped deep at her breasts and skimmed her thighs. "You'd have to get dressed."Shelby smiled, a slow invitation, but when he took a step toward her, she dunked bread into the batter. "Get a plate."He reached into the cupboard she indicated, then drew two plates out before he came to stand behind her. Leaning over, he brushed his lips below her ear, pleased with the quick tremor of response."The... Nora Roberts
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't..."
If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways. P. G. Wodehouse
Nicholas Sparks quote: "because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, ..."
...because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well. Nicholas Sparks
J. M. Barrie quote: "He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the..."
He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman. J. M. Barrie
It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave. E. M. Forster
Aomame closed her eyes and, in a split second, reviewed the long span of years as if standing on the edge of a sheer cliff, surveying an ocean channel below. She could smell the sea. She could hear the deep sighing of the wind. Haruki Murakami
Margaret Atwood quote: "How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word."
How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word. Margaret Atwood

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