Madame Picard believed that a child should be allowed to read anything: 'A book never does any harm if it is well written.' While she was there, I had once asked permission to read Madame Bovary and m...

Madame Valenska sat down in one of the chairs. Whose fortune shall I tell first? she asked the girls. Nancy stepped forward. Mine. I mean . . . maybe you can tell me about something I lost. Madame inv...

Madame Vernoique arched an eyebrow imperiously. Due to being exiled, your parents have been ... isolated in these mountains.Did she just call us hillbillies? Quinn drawled.Hey, Duncan broke in mildly....

Madame Versoix had been interrupted in the middle of preparing dinner. She wore an apron and held a wooden spoon in one hand. She was younger than her husband, chubby and handsome and warm-eyed. Insti...

Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed the distress of that creature who, thanks to her, had been put back in her proper place, and congratulated herself. The happiness...

Madame de Cintre's face had, to Newman's eye, a range of expression as delightfully vast as the wind-streaked, cloud-flecked distance on a Western prairie. But her mother's white, intense, respectable...

Madame de Nucingen was already there, dressed with the deliberate aim of appealing to all eyes, knowing that thereby she would seem even more attractive to Eugène.

Madame was in her room upstairs. She wore an open dressing gown that showed between the shawl facings of her bodice a pleated chamisette with three gold buttons. Her belt was a corded girdle with grea...

Madame, I believe the greatest sin against God is to be false. If one is not true to one's self, then it is impossible to be true to God. I bear you no ill will for following your heart.

Madame? Yes? What do I do? Just walk. She walks. Now there are cold round pebbles beneath her feet. Now crackling weeds. Now something smoother: wet, unwrinkled sand. She bends and spreads her fingers...

Maddox hissed. You think you’re cute?Nah, I think I’m sexy. The smirk spread, but it didn’t reach his cool ocher eyes. And I also think I’m hilarious.

Maddy showed up around eleven to drop off Scarlet and take me dress shopping. She used her mom skills to get me off the couch. Hey, pumpkin, I’ll get you a strawberry shake if you get up now, she whis...

Made a stupid remark—why not kill myself? Missed the bus—better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie—maybe I shouldn’t kill myself.

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Madeleine L'Engle observes: We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lo...

Madeleine L'Engle writes, To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

Madeleine L’Engle once said, We don’t want to feel Less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don’t want to close a book with a sense...

Madeleine L’Engle said, the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. 58 I think the same is true for churches.

Madeleine L’Engle said, the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.58 I think the same is true for churches. Each one stays with us, even after we’ve lef...

Madeline began hearing people saying Derrida. She heard them saying Lyotard and Foucault and Deleuze and Baudrillard. That most of these people were those she instinctually disapproved of- upper-middl...