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Selkie women are the women you don’t understand. They are the women who know that they belong to another tribe, in another element. And so they seem as though they don’t belong in yours – and they don’t. They are the women who live by other r...

Theodora Goss

It seems to me that the greatest triumph of any human rights movement, be it fighting for racial, religious, sexual or gender equality – is to achieve that moment where eyes are opened so wide that a sort of blindness sets in. I don’t care if som...

Kate Griffin

It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book. The din...

Michael Cunningham

I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm summer's night, dark, and moonless. There were a handful of fireflies flickering intermittently, some so close to me I could see they were burn...

Neil Gaiman

The trees were tinted exquisitely to an uncertain glory as the great red sinking sun flashed its rays on their crystal mantle. The vale of Aylesbury was drowsing beneath a slowly deepening shroud of mist. Above it the hills, their crests rounded and ...

H.R. Wakefield

It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell her why! Thus a poor mortal seduced by the charm of an apparition might have tried to wring from another ghost the tremendous secret of the claim th...

Joseph Conrad

Jackson Bentley: [on his interest in Lawrence and the Arab Revolt] I'm looking for a hero. Prince Feisal: Indeed, you do not seem a romantic man. Jackson Bentley: Oh, no! But certain influential men back home believe the time has come for America to ...

Lawrence of Arabia

Miles Raymond: Did you read the latest draft, by the way? Jack: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Miles Raymond: And? Jack: It's great. I mean there are so many improvements. It's much tighter, just seems... I don't know, more congealed or something. Miles Raymond: Mm...

Sideways

I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

Catching Fire

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Christian Science

Rubbing a clit to competin and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles.

Dirty Angels

Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.

The Diary of a Nobody

Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him

Ender's Game

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

The Electric Michelangelo

Power, it seems, is one of those terms we all understand and can explain--until asked to do so.

Elites and Masses

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Foundation's Edge

Magic will find those with pure hearts, even when all seems lost.

Falling Kingdoms

For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose boat is on the running stream.

The Fellowship of the Ring

...nothing seemed quite as romantic as holding hands while you climaxed.

Frat Rush

Why do I seem to have this effect on women? They're around me and they cry.

The Gravity of Birds

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Gilead