Top 100 Glancing Quotes

#1. In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.

Maggie Stiefvater

Glancing Quotes #3034
#2. Spar felt a tiny thud on the back of his shin, as if a moth had butted against him on its flight through the night air. Wait, had that been the small human? Had she kicked him? He could not tell by glancing at her face.

Christine Warren

Glancing Quotes #10287
#3. Ronan, taking in Blue's posture and Gansey below, observed, "If you spit, Blue, it would land right in his eye."
Gansey moved to the opposite side of the bed with surprising swiftness, glancing at Adam and away again as quickly.

Maggie Stiefvater

Glancing Quotes #67986
#4. Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something more. "I'd be a God damned fool to live anywhere else.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Glancing Quotes #84763
#5. Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.

Barbara Kingsolver

Glancing Quotes #97326
#6. Want to copy my stellar notes?" Cooper asked, scooting his desk closer.
Glancing at his notes, I shrugged. "You do have very nice penmanship. Dainty even."
"Bitch."
"Jackass."
"Gorgeous."
"Stud."
"You have no idea.

Bijou Hunter

Glancing Quotes #99514
#7. I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece.

Douglas Preston

Glancing Quotes #115736
#8. When I was nineteen,
I told a thirty-
year-old man what a
fool I had been when
I was seventeen.
'We were always,' he
said glancing down, 'a
fool two years ago.

Donald Hall

Glancing Quotes #160437
#9. I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable ...

Ralph Ellison

Glancing Quotes #164611
#10. Glancing at the bottle of tequila in Tate's hand, Logan questioned much more calmly than he felt, "How full was that?"

Tate lifted the quarter-empty bottle and shrugged. "Unopened. Why?

Ella Frank

Glancing Quotes #181016
#11. Behave, Miss Greaves," he murmured under his breath, his voice husky and deep. "Fine words for a man who runs about St. Giles at night in a mask," she whispered. He frowned, glancing around. "Hush.

Elizabeth Hoyt

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#12. Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.

Oscar Wilde

Glancing Quotes #206252
#13. I hear a muffled sniffling noise and glancing at Claire I am astonished to see that tears are streaming across her face toward her ears. I sit up and lean over her.

Audrey Niffenegger

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#14. Sometimes I get lost in the rhythm of the paddling. I even count the strokes it takes to get me to a point of land, The play of the muscles in one's arms and shoulders, and the feel of palm against worn wood, are preferable to glancing at a speedometer

Richard Proenneke

Glancing Quotes #265502
#15. I watched girls stroll by our table, glancing at Erik with half hidden interest before scurrying off. I wanted to shout at them to move along. We get it. He's good-looking.

R.S. Grey

Glancing Quotes #300565
#16. The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light , never put out the stars . It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness .

George Eliot

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#17. I went out a couple of times with Pierce. He's totally recognizable, and he makes no effort to tone it down. Some people were glancing over at us in the restaurant, and he just went over and introduced himself. And it does work. It dissipates all the attention. Me? I just crawl under the table.

Robert Pattinson

Glancing Quotes #308102
#18. Glancing over, I was astonished to see Adrian watching me, a look of contentment on his face. His eyes seemed to study my every feature. Seeing me notice him, he immediately looked away. His usual smirky expression replaced the dreamy one.

Richelle Mead

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#19. Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

Mason Cooley

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#20. Do you think there are bears?" whispered Linda, glancing at the black shore and jagged trees.
"Perhaps," said Philip. If it frightened her, he thought fiercely, so much the better.

Ruth Nichols

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#21. - I'm a believer in universal brotherhood, said Temple, glancing about him out of his dark oval eyes. Marx is only a bloody cod.

James Joyce

Glancing Quotes #370765
#22. Nothing I did or said among the other boys came to me naturally. As a result, in every encounter, even the most glancing, I had to be a performer, for at all times I was aware I was impersonating a human being.

Edmund White

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#23. was a quiet flight, Ethan's attention divided between staring out his window and glancing back through

Blake Crouch

Glancing Quotes #413414
#24. I'm going to do. I want to look at the microcard without my parents or Bram glancing

Ally Condie

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#25. He reminded himself as he turned another corner - glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there - the deed was the thing, not the praise.

Raymond E. Feist

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#26. But it is one thing to remember, another to know. Remembering is merely safeguarding something entrusted to the memory; knowing, however, means making everything your own; it means not depending upon the copy and not all the time glancing back at the master.

Seneca.

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#27. A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

Oscar Wilde

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#28. He supposed he was fascinated by that commonplace sense of history that anyone can feel glancing through the fresh news of ten or twenty years ago.

Stephen King

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#29. Shh, May,' Felicity said soothingly, glancing behind her. She absolutely did not want Rafe to come out and say something stupidly noble. They were on their own - again - and they would simply have to make do.

Suzanne Enoch

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#30. The grandfather clock struck the half hour. She must be away. Glancing from Mama to Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Astor, she did the only polite thing she could do.

She rolled her eyes back in her head, exhaled a loud gasp and swooned out of her chair.

Rachel Hauck

Glancing Quotes #540469
#31. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path

Antonio Machado

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#32. I think we should send him back," Reth said, glancing at poor, broken Jack with something that looked shockingly like compassion in his golden eyes. "He hasn't your resilience, and, admirable as it was of him to join us, this isn't his fight.

Kiersten White

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#33. Dear Mr. Fontenot: Glancing over your portfolio, it struck me that you are not in the best position to take advantage of the dawning age of missiles ...

Walker Percy

Glancing Quotes #554023
#34. Just as you can identify eras of fashion by glancing at a piece of vintage clothing, logos create and follow trends over time.

Peleg Top

Glancing Quotes #554734
#35. I went over to the narrow closet and picked out another outfit, glancing behind me to make sure Bones had shut the door before I dropped my towel. Ian would shamelessly peep on a free show, family ties or no family ties.

Jeaniene Frost

Glancing Quotes #565900
#36. They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time.

Patricia Highsmith

Glancing Quotes #579741
#37. An intercom popped on and Paris said, "Knock. Knock."
Static and then a woman's voice said, "Who's there?"
"The interrupting cow," Paris said, glancing at Luc, who shook his head.
"Moooooo!" Paris said, snickering.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Glancing Quotes #601528
#38. Don't leave me," I yell as he walks down the path leading to another life.
Turning and glancing at me over his shoulder, his eyes are no longer gleaming their perfect shade of green; they're cloudy, hazy even. "I'm not," he says as he keeps walking. "You left me, beautiful girl.

Kim Karr

Glancing Quotes #619937
#39. The careless arrows of misfortune were tangents glancing off the pure circle of her dreams.

Sonja Yoerg

Glancing Quotes #651762
#40. Hey, he's not using a holster," I said, glancing at Alex's on the dresser. He laughed out loud. "Yeah, I guess he must want something shooting off. It'd be so great if these things were true to life - the next scene would show him at hospital like, clutching himself in agony."'Angel - L.A.Weatherly

L.A. Weatherly

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#41. Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.

Nancy Gibbs

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#42. And Avery looks up at just that moment and sees the blue-haired boy glancing his way.
Some of us applaud. Others look away, because it hurts too much.

David Levithan

Glancing Quotes #704105
#43. It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

Bruce Tognazzini

Glancing Quotes #751447
#44. My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history.

Raymond E. Feist

Glancing Quotes #762259
#45. Glancing up at Jude, I found him looking at me, staring at me like he couldn't help it. Maybe that's because I could have updated my heritage status from Caucasian to Tomato Red.

Nicole Williams

Glancing Quotes #771792
#46. The nurse reached over and patted the stack of papers she had beside her before glancing back up at the blond again. "I'm plugging in meds and test results." "Blah, blah, blah. Don't let her fool you, she's a Twitter whore. On it all the fucking time

Abbi Glines

Glancing Quotes #785370
#47. Glancing round to see that no one was watching, I sniffed at it. The leather binding, soft and supple, was pungent, but it was the pages that interested me. They smelt nourishing, like new-baked bread

Linda Proud

Glancing Quotes #800921
#48. Who is your supervisor?" she asks, glancing around the room as if suddenly realizing she's the only adult here.
"God," I say.

Mindy McGinnis

Glancing Quotes #807252
#49. I love conversations!" "Why?" "Because we're all crazy!" said Serge. "And that's how society makes progress: imaginations getting together and glancing off each other in accidental tangents of invention.

Tim Dorsey

Glancing Quotes #875750
#50. No, no." I motion vaguely. "Relax. Don't look so ... guardlike." They drop formation at once, glancing at one another shamefaced. Hector draped an arm around my shoulder as if we were out for a companionable stroll. He leans down and says, "So. Horrible heat we've been having lately.

Rae Carson

Glancing Quotes #896179
#51. He had learned never to disturb her when the keyboard was clacking. He left a quick note and slipped out. He grabbed the 6 train up to midtown and walked to the Kinney lot on 46th Street. Mario tossed him the keys without glancing up from his paper.

Harlan Coben

Glancing Quotes #926616
#52. He walked slowly up and down the rows, glancing at titles and authors, hoping to find something useful. He was so intent in his search that he failed to notice the dark, hooded figure that entered the archives and stood silently in the doorway, watching him

Drew Karpyshyn

Glancing Quotes #943400
#53. The difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

Mary Stewart

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#54. It's Ms. Armano."
"Oh, Ms, huh. One of those women's libbers?" He chuckled, glancing up at her.
"I prefer independent woman who can make it on her own. Lucky for you I'd say if I decide to accept your offer.

Mary J. McCoy-Dressel

Glancing Quotes #959131
#55. This cat is looking at me with judgment.""He's not," said Jules. "That's just his face.""You look at me the same way," Mark said, glancing at Julian. "Judgy face.

Cassandra Clare

Glancing Quotes #965083
#56. I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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#57. In, taking a table by the window. Glancing around,

Anonymous

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#58. She Snores," said Siku, looking at me. "You better get earplugs. That kind of thing runs in the family."

I opened my mouth, glancing at Caleb, whose eyes got wide in disbelief. Had Siku made a joke? I was too dumbfounded to reply.

Nina Berry

Glancing Quotes #1037153
#59. The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection ...

Heinrich Heine

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#60. Caught the Viking looking at this. He's wife hunting." He winked at Frey before glancing down at Trudy. "Better than trying to capture one."
Frey sent Seth a mock scowl. "I left my battle axe at home.

Debra Holland

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#61. Vivi stood and crumpled the report. "Who's the CEO at Slakerian?"
"Jakes Echabarne," her assistant said, not glancing at any notes.
"Arrange a meeting." No one messed around with Hunting4TrueLove, whether she held the reins or not.

Cheryl Sterling

Glancing Quotes #1083438
#62. She was nearly twenty, with dark hair, darker eyes, and a hint of something deeper within. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate. Anyone glancing at her would have thought her soft: a serious error of judgment.

Alan Dean Foster

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#63. I am not going to be the person who completes you," he said, glancing at me and turning away. "You are one messed-up bitch.

Kim Harrison

Glancing Quotes #1110238
#64. Suddenly, I found myself running along the rooftop, leaping and falling. Falling until I caught the zip-line handle and then I was zooming, flying across the sky. I released the precious glass ball, not even glancing down to see it shatter.

Embee

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#65. I'm sorry ... " She shrugs, glancing back at him. "Gotta admit he's hot, though, Livie. He looks like a Mediterranean underwear model. There'd be no coyote-ugly situation in the morning there.

K.A. Tucker

Glancing Quotes #1122999
#66. Hang on ... Do you smell that?"
"Yeah ... shit," Nev snarled, glancing at the thick jungle that surrounded us.
"You smell shit?" Ethan asked. "Thanks for sharing."
"No," Nev said. "We smell cats.

Andrea Cremer

Glancing Quotes #1145798
#67. I want everyone to get plenty of rest tonight, because tomorrow, we make plans to bury the new council chair. And don't worry about the shovel shortage," I said, glancing from face to determined face. "Because Calvin Malone has dug his own grave.

Rachel Vincent

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#68. Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through the motions - attending their meetings perhaps, glancing at scriptures, repeating familiar prayers - but their hearts are far away.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Glancing Quotes #1167594
#69. You're dismissed, Lieutenant," the captain said evenly. "Go to your quarters."
"Yes,sir,thank you,sir," Tadark squeaked, glancing about miserably before sloshing into the palace, his dignity as waterlogged as his boots.

Cayla Kluver

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#70. They put their animals to the ford and crossed, the water up under the horses' bellies and the horses picking their way over the rocks and glancing wildly upstream where a cataract thundered out of the darkening forest into the flecked and seething pool below.

Cormac McCarthy

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#71. Arise you little glancing wings, and sing your infant joy!
Arise and drink your bliss, for every thing that lives is holy!

William Blake

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#72. Because, visible through the slashed covers, the bone-deep wounds that crisscross the couple's bodies pump blood. Some of the flaps of skin resulting from glancing blows are like gills, breathing. Yet even as the cries die away, he carries on.

Mark Kirkbride

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#73. Glancing sideways, he said that he loved her. Then, turning rapidly, he walked away and entered a tobacco shop.

Vladimir Nabokov

Glancing Quotes #1211979
#74. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near.

James Montgomery

Glancing Quotes #1221956
#75. Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

Marilynne Robinson

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#76. Ever met a sympathetic doctor? No ways. They're always impatient, glancing at the watch, calculating the price of your sickness against the price of another pair of shoes for the bitch wife with the reluctant cunt.

Ian Martin

Glancing Quotes #1249210
#77. Icarus."
"Hmm?"
"I don't have a hidden agenda. Nor do I intend to use you or mislead you with my charm."
Despite herself, she smiled, glancing at him. His face was studiously neutral.
"The day you act charming, I'll know something is wrong.

Dru Pagliassotti

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#78. There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

Charles Dudley Warner

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#79. Memory flashed, of a blue dress and a face glancing up at him, and eagerness and trepidation exchanged blows on the battlefield of his heart

Greg Keyes

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#80. We exist to be killed," Kaladin said. He blinked, glancing at the other few members of Bridge Four sitting apathetically in the rain. "If we're not dead already.

Brandon Sanderson

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#81. Glancing in through the open door to Xav's room, I saw Zed stretched out on the queen mattress, his arm hugging a pillow as if he felt Sky's absence at his side.

Joss Stirling

Glancing Quotes #1301122
#82. The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of art - that is, the meaningful-real.
(The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952))

William, Saroyan

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#83. Glancing at the time on my phone, I cringe. Midnight. The witching hour. This was when Calease always came for me.
I hate midnight.

Erica Cameron

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#84. The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender ...

Heinrich Heine

Glancing Quotes #1368300
#85. They did the whole lingering gaze thing, following it with the glancing-away, smiling-knowingly routine. She felt vivacious, a feeling she remembered, she was enjoying the self-confidence, the larkiness.

Freya North

Glancing Quotes #1401573
#86. Why do you read books?" he asked. "Why do you drink beer?" I replied without glancing in his direction,

Haruki Murakami

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#87. How do you manage?" she asked in a low voice. "How do you manage to carry your weapon, to stand guard, to go and fight, to be strong for all of us?"
"I give you," said Alexander, glancing at her, "what you need most from me.

Paullina Simons

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#88. find of the century." The number of scientists and archeologists muttered together, all glancing at the object at the center of the crowd. It almost looked like as if a strange animal had landed in

Pika KID

Glancing Quotes #1444711
#89. Gabe clucked his tongue. "He's probably not the only one," he said, glancing at me. "Trouble does seem to find you, Kitten.

Chloe Neill

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#90. There is a fertile stretch of flat lands in Indiana where unagarian Eastern travelers, glancing from car windows, shudder and return their eyes to interior upholstery, preferring even the swaying comparisons of a Pullman to the monotony without.

Booth Tarkington

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#91. I think that was the most words we've ever said to each other," Kowalski commented, glancing over at me. "Well, that's Ian, Captain Communication.

Mary Calmes

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#92. This tiger is sprawled
So still and so flat,
A question arises
When glancing thereat.
Is he asleep? to be
Perfectly frank,
He looks more as if
He was creamed by a tank!

Bill Watterson

Glancing Quotes #1476526
#93. I welcome your opinions," Margaret said, glancing down. "Not your dictates." For

Karen Ranney

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#94. As a builder, as an entrepreneur, how can you create something for someone else if you don't have even enough glancing familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

Timothy Ferriss

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#95. Glancing at the shadows, "Come in," I beseech. "Let me see, let me touch you. Talk to me ... And let me tell you my story.

Uvi Poznansky

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#96. The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices
and to make sure that somebody notices.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#97. Aw, fuck," Ripper muttered. Crossing his arms over his chest, the guy leaned back against the doorjamb.
"Danny," he said, glancing over his shoulder. "Shit just got real, baby.

Madeline Sheehan

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#98. Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

Thomas Hood

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#99. Even though every piece of today feels small. I'll do today, glancing up and remembering a race is completed the same way this book is completed. Step by step. Word by word. Day by day.

Jennie Allen

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#100. King Henry wants lands an'titles, like all the English."
"What do Scots want?" she asked, glancing over her shoulder. Darrow was far more sure footed than she was.
"A good woman, a warm bed, and food in their bellies." He grinned at her and she couldn't help but laugh.

Selena Kitt

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