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She kept her ears permanently tuned to the chicken voices outside, so knew immediately when a coyote had crept into the yard, and barreled screaming for the front door before the rest of us had a clue. (I don't know about the coyote, but I nearly needed CPR.) These hens owed their lives and eggs to Lily, there was no question. Barbara Kingsolver
She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another. James M. Cain
Arundhati Roy quote: "She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct..."
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture. Arundhati Roy
She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said,"You have a bad case, a very bad case."Of what?"Growing up. Betty Smith
Gustave Flaubert quote: "She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep."
She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep. Gustave Flaubert
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it..."
She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her. David Herbert Lawrence
She had influenced him more than any person he had ever known. And always in this way coming before him without his wishing it, cool, ladylike, critical; or ravishing, romantic.. Virginia Woolf
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present..."
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief. Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Trevor quote: "She is embarrassed to be alive and no one on earth can fully..."
She is embarrassed to be alive and no one on earth can fully console her. William Trevor
She was reduced to the dependency of an infant, too terrified of life itself to find solace anywhere but in the familiar succoring breast and in the sound of that same heartbeat remembered from the womb. Dean Koontz
She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men. Jack London
L. M. Montgomery quote: "She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it..."
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly. L. M. Montgomery
She moved through it carrying her fat book, attracted, unsure, a stranger, wanting to feel relevant but knowing how much of a search among alternative universes it would take. Thomas Pynchon
Graham Greene quote: "She was his like a table or a chair, but a table owned you,..."
She was his like a table or a chair, but a table owned you, too - by your fingerprints. Graham Greene
C. S. Lewis quote: "She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should..."
She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe. C. S. Lewis

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