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Tag Name "Lydia" (9)

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I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.
Danzy Senna
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And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.
Jane Austen
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I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you. - Jake to Lydia
Lisa Kleypas
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Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
Margaret Atwood
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Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When they were minted into coins of equal weight in order to make trade easier and smoother. But it was when coinage first made its appearance in Athens that it truly flourished.
Michael Maloney
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My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. Dad, I said. Am I a dog? Lydia, he said. I apologize.
Jaclyn Moriarty
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Is he a sophomore? Lydia says. Please tell me he's in our grade. I don't know, I say. But weren't you there when he came to the office? Peyton says. The secretary didn't get out her bullhorn and announce what grade he's in. She just took him to meet Headmaster Perkins.
Lauren Myracle
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As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.
Lydia Sigourney
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We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.
Margaret Atwood