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Was unhappiness really so invisible? Or did people simply prefer to turn away, as if from lepers?

You, sir, are a scoundrel. As if he'd heard her thought, he glanced her way. Their gazes held, a pair of miscreants recognizing each other in a roomful of upstanding people.

I often question your actions, but rarely your reasoning. And this isn't one of those rare instances.

It won't be disagreeable," he said. "It can be made quite enjoyable." "Oh, it had better be," she said tartly. "I've heard plenty over the years on your amatory prowess. If I'm not on the roof crowing, I will consider myself disappointed.

I'm glad you don't see it as romantic." "Good gracious, no. It's selfish, pure and simple.

Are you sure? I might take it as permission to further push my company on you.

A house that Charlotte thought to be "slightly extravagant"? Charlotte, who had never met a garish color combination she didn't immediately wish to add to her own wardrobe?

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it.

I will have you know that I have the brightest mind and the keenest wit. Why, people are often astounded by the perspicacity of my discourse and the subtlety of my insight!" He

fifteen-year-old stepson, Christian, quite adored them—and his collection was growing at a problematic rate. Christian's

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

My mother had a two-part plan: first to end these court-mandated visits.

They take antidepressants prescribed by their psychotherapists, confident that the biochemical and oedipal self can be treated in one room.

paper that Tina had tossed

How dirty she was, how thin, what a wild look she had! I have never seen a wilder-looking creature. Her eyes were bright. They were like the eyes of a wild animal.

Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes.

The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed.

Louise was from childhood a neurotic, one of the race of over-sensitive women that in later days industrialism was to bring in such great numbers into the world.

I had come out of a messy workplace along a messy street to a messy room and did not like it and within me was the beer that made me bold.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust.