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Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he’d spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.

Dateline: Kydd and Rios

It was machines that scanned the heavens, machines that probed the space between atoms, machines that asked the questions and designed to experiments to answer them. All that was left for mere meat, apparently, was navel-gazing.

Echopraxia

How do you explain to your friend's mother why a night out with friends has left her daughter dying from an ecstasy overdose?

Ecstasy

Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

Ender's Game

Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.

The Element -inth in Greek

Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

Endless Magic

It would almost be easier to never see her again tan to look into her eyes and know she'd left her love for him somewhere in the past.

Even Now

I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when I was one? - Catherine Khan

The Edge of Power

Life's most obvious truths are the hardest to see but once you've burned everything to the ground they are the only things left standing. André Chevalier

Elizabeth's Bondage Boxed Set

So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather from inside out.

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all.

Fiela's Child

I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in total darkness and the playgrounds left lonesome and bare - creepily peculiar.

Furry Friends

She'd put her teeth in his heart, long ago, and he'd left the print there, evidence that he wanted her love. That he returned it.

Fearless: The Complete Novel

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...

A Familiar Rain

At that moment there was a knock on the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left hand, awkwardly and shyly. He stroked it gently and then he blushed and turned hastily away.

The Fellowship of the Ring

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

A Familiar Rain

Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.

The Fellowship of the Ring

it smelled the way a garage would smell if you left a bear inside it for too long.

Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story

Sometimes a woman has experienced too much life to have any blush left in her cheeks, but the man who puts it there is someone not easily forgotten.

Five Weeks

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.

Glass Girl

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

Good Morning, Midnight