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She was good in the fullest and narrowest sense of the word as it is applied to female children. And she had blossomed into exactly the sort of adult her childhood predicted. Ah well.
Marilynne Robinson • Home (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible, – or from one of our elder poets, – in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addit
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
April was now twenty, and because she was truly sympathetic to the human condition, she was besieged by a band of stars and handsome devils, who came to her when life for them stayed too glamorous for too long and didn’t seem real. Eventually, April went to sea and became a sailor.
Eve Babitz • Sex and Rage: A Novel
“Sounds like her loss, because you might be the coolest kid I’ve ever met.” She doesn’t use a sad voice, or a baby voice, she just talks to him like a normal human being. “Fucking hell,” I curse under my breath because she just practically hired herself.
Elsie Silver • Heartless: A Small Town Single Dad Romance
“You that farm boy always hangin around Desiree.”
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
FER. Sir, she is mortal; But by immortal Providence she ’s mine: