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Related The advantage of the one writing about hearts of poets: he can hear them beating even in his sleep. MARIANA FULGER she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the... PAULO COELHO Jermaine came to make many choices in his life that simply broke our hearts because we knew that he ... DANIEL PELLETIER Women were glad when he came into their lives. It was not boasting. Women smiled for him; even when ... ROBERT JORDAN He races in his sleep. All he knew (before we got him) was the kennel and the track. LAURIE HICKE Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer... JOHN CONNOLLY Everybody clapped enthusiastically and Dr. Marx popped up from behind the podium, where he had been ... GIDEON DEFOE He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to ... JOSEPH ROTH He had that smile and twinkle in his eye, where you know, we had overlooked something. We were waiti... DONALD ROZIER A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. ... ANTHONY TROLLOPE Keith had it a little better than most kids here because he had two parents in the same household wh... JEFF HILL And at that moment, Thibaut knew he was a murderer. He had murdered his brother that night; he had t... C. JOYBELL C. He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him. MARIAN KEYES I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had ... GEORGE FOX When he was in a game, he put his mind, body and soul into trying to win it. He was animated, but th... BILL GRANGER He had a honey hole there where he was catching some nice fish. He didn't catch a lot, but his fish ... JIMMY WALKER It's hard for them. I had one client who had never worn jeans, even in casual settings. I had to tel... CLAIRE WEXLER Where'er his fancy bids him roam,
In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--
. . . .
Will not an Inn... WILLIAM COMBE (COOMBE) That was his famous saying, ... He would never let them leave feeling like they had failed. JULIE NELSON All of a sudden, she was there, breaking away from the little group of women and running toward him.... BONNIE DEE …in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning spee... PATRICK SüSKIND The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on t... LAURIE LEE He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’... J.K. ROWLING Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that rede... ORSON SCOTT CARD They were living to themselves: self, with its hopes, and promises, and dreams, still had hold of th... ELIZABETH PAYSON PRENTISS Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had ... LARRY MCMURTRY And in an essential way, this was what he was most ashamed of: not his poor understanding of sex, no... HANYA YANAGIHARA He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his
head. GEORGE HERBERT It was, he felt, a persistent flaw in his wife's otherwise practical and sensible character that she... TERRY PRATCHETT His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time h... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The thing I like about Martin's play was his defense. I thought with his four steals and his very go... DAN DAKICH As soon as he was half-awake he slipped his knickers off. Holding them close to his face, he handled... DEREK RAYMOND He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his a... TIM LAHAYE He broke away from my mouth and trailed his lips down the front of my throat. I felt his lips close ... ROSE CHRISTO She kissed his lips and felt his smile form. Alone in this beautiful space, Blake and Livia made thi... DEBRA ANASTASIA Undoubtedly, he knew a lot about offense. His record speaks for itself. I heard about a year ago whe... HORACE WILLIAMS He was never embarrassed about hugging and kissing anyone he loved, even his mother. He loved with a... LESA NEEHAN He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her drea... CASSANDRA CLARE He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ... CASSANDRA CLARE It's a big deal for him because now he knows how good he is. He was extremely happy after he won. He... JARED ESALA But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his sext bre... NICHOLAS SPARKS His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him... TAHEREH MAFI It is obvious that in his day-dreams he is a warrior, not a professor; all of the men he admires wer... BERTRAND RUSSELL Well, he needed it. He was about to cry, and the next time I saw him he had a smile on his face, so ... LARRY WHEELER He has a lot more to struggle with than we do, but he still always has a smile on his face and he's ... AUSTIN BOYCE He exhibited tremendous intelligence. And he liked to mess around with his opponents on the track. H... LAURA HILLENBRAND I'll miss his father-like guidance, his friendship and his yelling, because he didn't yell often but... GREG ROLLINS He always had a big heart. Little kids would want him to sign their shirts, and he enjoyed doing tha... PETE GILLEN It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they h... FRANZ KAFKA He had a smile that would warm your heart. He had a twinkle in his eyes. ANTHONY RANDOLPH If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with re... STEPHEN KING People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, an... MITCH ALBOM The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while ... THOMAS MANN His teammates did not rally around him. At all. They were frustrated, angry, and somewhat sympatheti... RON ROTHSTEIN This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all ... MARCEL PROUST He came to play every day. He was like Larry Bird in basketball. He was one of the first guys at pra... JACK MCMAHON A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other ha... CASSANDRA CLARE Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee al... BIBLE Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that wa... SPARKY ANDERSON His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, .... ROBERT WISE We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright ... NEIL GAIMAN It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the wood... BENJAMIN RUSH He had just one arm, and there were all kinds of legends that he was fighting a guy and when he coul... JACKIE BERRY Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that wa... SPARKY ANDERSON He was cussing (his teammates) out. He cussed them out when the players lined up in the wrong spot o... DONTE WHITNER He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the... AYN RAND He looked disheveled and disreputable, like an outlaw on the run. A smile came to his lips, while he... LISA KLEYPAS Nathaniel Strider could never love. He's obviously discovered early on that girls' hearts were vulne... TESS OLIVER I think all of the guys like him, and given the things he's seen and where he's come from, he has a ... FRANK SULLIVAN And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother... BIBLE I love his makeup. He brings a lot of class. He never makes excuses. He always has a smile on his fa... MITCHELL PAGE He couldn’t look back at the children. He couldn’t think of it. All he could do was watch the ey... RACHEL A. MARKS He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a... CHRISTINE FEEHAN A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him p... MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA After the parade, my manager had the kids park the float in his driveway, where he meticulously remo... GAYLE TWEETON PARSONS exhilaration fizzed through Clarke’s body. Before she realised what she was doing, she had thrown ... KASS MORGAN And he would put his arms around her and hold her, but he had no idea what to tell her. In his mind,... SUZANNE COLLINS A man's desire is to find a good woman, that can make him smile, a woman that can understand him and... LIAH BARE What were he and his friends doing, really, other than hanging from a branch, sticking their tongues... JEFFREY EUGENIDES He was always there for you, and he always had a big smile on his face. JOE MICUCCI Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I... DAVID WALLIAMS He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided... KARL MARLANTES Boys are unpredictable and stupid and brash. They do creepy, stalkerish things because they believe ... CAROLINE GEORGE He loved them just like they were his own. BRUCE SCOTT He's always pushing the guy forward whenever he finished off the run. A guy looked like he had him w... MARTY REDMOND It took Pueblo a few seconds to take in his surroundings. The first thing he realised was that he fe... DIANNA HARDY Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, ... WILLIAM PETERSEN He wouldn't let his servants change the sheets on his bed because they still smelled like her, becau... SARAH J. MAAS Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass ... CORMAC MCCARTHY The people he met, the places he passed, were all steps in his journey, and he kept a place inside h... RACHEL JOYCE A slow smile spread across his lips, and he threaded his fingers through mine. "I can see why I like... JUS ACCARDO He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountain... PAULO COELHO Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him... BIBLE There was no escaping his crown. Or his father, who would behead Sorscha, burn her, and scatter her ... SARAH J. MAAS His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he ki... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; / When he speaketh fair, ... BIBLE I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his churc... JOHN CONNOLLY She frowned, and the effect was so pretty he wondered if he was going mad. Why did he find this cran... ROS BAXTER
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Than wound my honour. JOSEPH ADDISON Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
. . . .
Endless... JOSEPH ADDISON A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty
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they are instruments of ambition. ... JOSEPH ADDISON On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
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Thy mercy set me free,
Whilst in the confidence of pray'r
... JOSEPH ADDISON And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform,
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. JOSEPH ADDISON O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have done amiss,... JOSEPH ADDISON We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very
next step to being dull. JOSEPH ADDISON I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to
achieve immortality through not dyin... JOSEPH ADDISON Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. JOSEPH ADDISON Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somet... JOSEPH ADDISON A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. JOSEPH ADDISON Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man! JOSEPH ADDISON The plan is when I go to college I plan on taking four years off. School is definitely my priority n... ADDISON PHILLIPS We've built crude supplies far in excess of what the market is expecting and that should weigh on pr... ADDISON ARMSTRONG That was a shocking gasoline build...the crude build was bigger than expected and that should put do... ADDISON ARMSTRONG Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments... ADDISON ARMSTRONG Obviously the newcomers have a shorter period of time, they learn from the mistakes of others and so... CRAIG ADDISON Although we have received many calls expressing concerns and anger about this incident, we have not ... DAVID ADDISON We're asking someone from the lacrosse team to step forward. We will be relentless in finding out wh... DAVID ADDISON When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate. ADDISON WHITHECOMB The spacious firmament on high, / And all the blue ethereal sky, / And spangled heavens, a shining f... JOSEPH ADDISON No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in JOSEPH ADDISON Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature JOSEPH ADDISON What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. JOSEPH ADDISON Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity JOSEPH ADDISON The only thing that frightens me, Chloe, is that you keep lessening the six degrees of separation in... ADDISON MOORE We could call him Gynecological Gage or Assman - AssHOLE - take your pick. ADDISON MOORE Chloe Bishop took an ax and gave Skanky Skyla forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, she ... ADDISON MOORE Personally." My mother digs a smile into the side of her cheek. "I'm rooting for Logan." ... ADDISON MOORE Perfect knowledge is hallowed ground. It caresses you, cradles you with the barbed wire of truth. It... ADDISON MOORE Play hard to get. You should be. ADDISON MOORE There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. JOSEPH ADDISON When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault of love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise... JOSEPH ADDISON To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truth... JOSEPH ADDISON