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I can see her mind beating around the closed car like a bird. Locked in with privileges and pleasures, but also with pain.

Do you make it a habit to go through Sarah's diaries?" The look Laurie gave him was pure pity. "You're the one who wants to know what everyone is thinking. What makes you better?

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He was the author of a best-selling book emphasizing homeopathic remedies, stress reduction, and physical therapy as a means to reduce physical pain, advocating prescription drugs and surgical intervention only as last resorts.

key in the other direction and pushed the door open. It parted a few

I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation.

She didn't fear death itself, welcoming release from her long struggle between mind and body.

form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had drawn of

Has anyone ever pointed out that you're too clever by half?" "It's been mentioned. Why do you think I'm a spinster?

Here's a lesson for you, Clare. Frivolity is usually far more profitable than necessity.

You were the devil's daughter even then, you just lacked the experience to fully express your natural outrageousness.

Daddy said a Republican was somebody who couldn't enjoy eating unless he knew somebody else was hungry

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The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

As for Elizabeth Bennet, our chief reason for accepting her point of view as a reflection of her author's is the impression that she bears of sympathy between them--an impression of which almost every reader would be sensible, even if it had not the explicit confirmation of Jane Austen's letters. Yet, as she is presented to us in Pride and Prejudice, she is but a partial and sometimes perverse observer.

Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters.

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings…

I live an immoral life. It is immoral because it is deadly futile.

It is to be hoped you are not 'intellectual,' which is an unpardonable trait

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things.

For he was their Victor Hugo. And his Paris, the Paris of Esmeralda and Jean Valjean, would live forever.

Death would soon carry off Zola as well, although in his case the suspicion existed, and still exists, that he was murdered. No concrete evidence was ever produced to prove this, and yet the circumstances of his death were sufficiently odd to encourage speculation.

She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.

The state has moved from being the main creator of public money to being a supplicant 'housewife'.