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  • After Stanchion introduced her, she sang an aria in a voice so clear and pure that I forgot my anxiety for a while and was ensnared by her song.†   (source)
  • My next step was listening to the German and the Italian arias.†   (source)
  • He said that he had traveled all over the world when he was young and that he had studied opera in Milan and in Buenos Aires and as they rolled through the countryside he sang arias and gestured with great vigor.†   (source)
  • Pietro Crespi left for the capital of the province an hour after receiving the letter, and on the road he missed his mother, who arrived punctually Saturday night and at Aureliano's wedding sang the sad aria that she had prepared for the wedding of her son.†   (source)
  • Ann has stayed behind to practice her aria for Assembly Day—the day when our families will descend upon Spence and see what marvels of womanhood we're becoming.†   (source)
  • The "One Fine Day" aria creeps in over the speakers.†   (source)
  • He would put on his best clothes, shave, and play his favorite opera arias on the gramophone.†   (source)
  • The walls were papered with dated, now faded murals of Venice, Rome and Florence; the softly piped-in music was predominantly operatic arias and tarantellas, and the lighting indirect with pockets of shadows.†   (source)
  • The women I knew back in New York grumbled from down low in the gut, in messy plaints, everything spoken in 2 A.M. arias.†   (source)
  • And when the aria ended, after a few seconds of silence the students would erupt into a roar of appreciation that put the audiences of major opera houses to shame.†   (source)
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  • He would never hear the nonsensical chatter of his children or thrill to the arias of La Bohlme.†   (source)
  • All Randy heard was a mockingbird tuning up for his morning aria.†   (source)
  • This outburst—this little aria—had come so swiftly that it surprised me; her fingers trembled slightly.†   (source)
  • Richie, a lesser man, could tune a. car, tear a motor boat apart, plaster a ceiling, build a house, and sing an aria from Carmen.†   (source)
  • His sisters Alia and Aria were said to be in an orphanage in another district, but he knew nothing certain about them.†   (source)
  • If Ali needed to make amends, though, Aria could think of a more deserving candidate than her.†   (source)
  • Mike, who sat next to Aria in the backseat, grinned.†   (source)
  • Aria was still on the bed, staring up at a crack in the ceiling.†   (source)
  • When she heard the door slam, Aria opened her eyes.†   (source)
  • Do you think Aria Montgomery had hers done?†   (source)
  • "Jesus," Aria groaned, leaning her naked body off the bed to pull it out of her bag.†   (source)
  • He stood a few feet away from Aria with a carton of orange juice in his hand.†   (source)
  • Aria laughed, not sure how serious he was.†   (source)
  • Well, Icelandic Aria could certainly be brainy.†   (source)
  • Aria brushed away her pink-striped hair and breathed in the warm early-evening air.†   (source)
  • Aria had fled around the corner and ran until she had to start walking.†   (source)
  • Aria frowned, taking a seat on a lavender floor pillow.†   (source)
  • Mike glanced up and saw Aria and Noel together.†   (source)
  • Emily turned to introduce Aria, but she was gone.†   (source)
  • Aria headed into the classroom and fell into the first desk she saw.†   (source)
  • Aria leaned against the stone-topped island.†   (source)
  • I wore it for old time's sake," Aria whispered.†   (source)
  • Aria tugged down the shoulder of her dress to reveal a white knitted bra strap.†   (source)
  • Aria stepped around it and walked inside the hallway.†   (source)
  • Emily took a sip, which burned in her chest, then passed it to Aria.†   (source)
  • Aria grabbed her bag and tore out the door and across the yard.†   (source)
  • As Ezra turned to the side and put his finger on his chin, listening, Aria throbbed.†   (source)
  • Noel tapped Aria's photo strip with his thumb.†   (source)
  • Actually, two someones: Aria's father, Byron, and a girl, about twenty years old, kissing his neck.†   (source)
  • I just wanted to say I thought Aria's report was good.†   (source)
  • Aria read the next text message and the next and the next.†   (source)
  • Before he could answer, Aria shot out of the car, blood rushing in her ears.†   (source)
  • Aria looked up, realizing they were all staring at her.†   (source)
  • —A Aria quickly snapped her cell phone shut.†   (source)
  • So what if Rosewood boys didn't get kooky Aria?†   (source)
  • Aria always worried Ella would find out about Meredith and never forgive her for keeping the secret.†   (source)
  • "Not it," Spencer, Emily, and Aria quickly followed.†   (source)
  • Aria followed her parents inside and they bustled off into separate rooms.†   (source)
  • It was so Aria—she was the type who thought wearing some color to funerals celebrated the living.†   (source)
  • A whistle blew, and Noel reached into the car to touch Aria's arm.†   (source)
  • Aria stared at his hands for a moment, then slid her pinkie finger up against his.†   (source)
  • She then gave Aria and Noel—who was still standing there—an apologetic shrug.†   (source)
  • It was an hour later, and Aria was just stepping out of the photo booth.†   (source)
  • "Wait," Aria squeaked, her voice still filled with tears.†   (source)
  • Aria didn't want her mom to find out— not now, and not that way.†   (source)
  • What had all Aria's bizarre Alison questions been about?†   (source)
  • Aria turned back to Ezra, her mouth open in shock.†   (source)
  • "So, we meet again," Aria said, smiling.†   (source)
  • "Holy … " Aria choked on her words, blinking furiously a couple of times.†   (source)
  • She motioned for Hanna, Aria, and Emily to go on without her.†   (source)
  • Aria murmured, "Do you think she means … " Spencer swallowed hard.†   (source)
  • It's not funny," Aria snapped, whipping her head around to face Emily.†   (source)
  • Really, never mind," Aria answered her father, who'd been waiting patiently, sipping his coffee.†   (source)
  • If Emily recalled correctly, Aria had spiky handwriting that looked a lot like this.†   (source)
  • As he said it, he put his hand on Aria's knee.†   (source)
  • Aria turned her head sideways, trying to place her.†   (source)
  • Aria gripped the edge of Ezra's kitchen table.†   (source)
  • Aria let out a tortured sigh and looked around the classroom.†   (source)
  • Aria slowly reached down and pulled it out.†   (source)
  • On Tuesday, the first day of school, Aria walked quickly to her first-period English class.†   (source)
  • Look, I … I think you're amazing, Aria.†   (source)
  • The morning fog was so dense that Aria could barely see her legs below her.†   (source)
  • I've been away for such a long time, and … " Aria made a puckered face that Emily remembered well.†   (source)
  • Aria smiled blandly—striped cotton boxers, of course—but snapped her attention back to Ezra.†   (source)
  • So the last few days of school, before she disappeared, Aria avoided Alison.†   (source)
  • But before she could say it, Aria's phone rang.†   (source)
  • Aria covered her phone with her hands and looked up.†   (source)
  • That's when Byron looked up and saw Aria.†   (source)
  • Then Aria's eyes focused on someone behind her.†   (source)
  • Ella echoed, looking back and forth from Mike to Aria.†   (source)
  • Aria was so surprised she flinched and nearly knocked over her drink.†   (source)
  • Ezra started to give her directions, but Aria already knew where it was.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Aria that he was trying to make up his mind.†   (source)
  • As soon as he was out of sight, Aria whirled back around.†   (source)
  • Aria wrapped her hands around the top of the chair.†   (source)
  • Aria looked at him out of the corner of her eye.†   (source)
  • One new text message: Aria, Maybe he fools around with students all the time.†   (source)
  • In the distance, Aria noticed a vintage powderblue Volkswagen beetle parked in the teacher's lot.†   (source)
  • And if anyone could do silly and out there, it was Aria.†   (source)
  • Aria opened her mouth to say more, but couldn't find the words.†   (source)
  • "Everybody lies about their age," Aria said quietly.†   (source)
  • "Not it," Emily, Spencer, and Aria said at once.†   (source)
  • Aria blew her long bangs out of her eyes.†   (source)
  • Aria looked down, feeling both pleased and a little queasy.†   (source)
  • When Emily asked Aria if Ali had told her Emily's secret, Aria had replied, "What, recently?†   (source)
  • "Whatever," Aria said, kissing her mother on the top of her head.†   (source)
  • Outside, Aria heard a familiar girl's laugh.†   (source)
  • It felt like a fist was pummeling Aria's stomach.†   (source)
  • I don't know," Aria murmured, trying not to start bawling all over again.†   (source)
  • She rifled through the paper and handed the page to Aria.†   (source)
  • She'd heard Aria was back but she hadn't seen her yet.†   (source)
  • Aria listened to the school-issued wall clock ticking off the seconds.†   (source)
  • Ella asked quietly, cupping her hand over Aria's.†   (source)
  • Aria dug her hot-pink nails into the wood grain of her desk.†   (source)
  • But Aria ignored them and pushed through her bedroom door.†   (source)
  • Aria opened her door as well, but her father touched her forearm.†   (source)
  • Aria looked at him and pushed her hair out of her eyes.†   (source)
  • Aria also couldn't shake the idea that the A message might actually be from Alison.†   (source)
  • "Hi," Aria answered, smiling back at him in the same way.†   (source)
  • Aria wanted to ask if he had a girlfriend.†   (source)
  • Aria paused, closed her eyes, and a glow passed through her.†   (source)
  • Emily biked furiously away from Aria's house, narrowly missing a jogger on the side of the road.†   (source)
  • But suddenly Aria was too afraid to ask.†   (source)
  • Aria widened her eyes and her heart started to pound.†   (source)
  • Aria felt for her phone in her bag and pulled it out.†   (source)
  • This can't be happening," Aria whispered.†   (source)
  • Now, three years later, Aria wondered who she'd really been mad at.†   (source)
  • As Aria scoured her brain for something to say, her Treo beeped.†   (source)
  • Aria didn't want to stare back at them, so she looked down at her text message.†   (source)
  • As for Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna, something shifted in them, too.†   (source)
  • Aria scratched the back of her neck where her straight black hair was drawn up in a ponytail.†   (source)
  • And okay, fine, some might say it was just a … a tongue connection … but Aria knew it was more.†   (source)
  • They stood there for a moment, and then Aria turned.†   (source)
  • Unless … "This has been the worst week of my life," Aria said suddenly.†   (source)
  • Aria shrugged and pulled the stuffed pig out of her bag.†   (source)
  • You promised yourself you wouldn't think about it, Aria thought, glancing back over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • "I kind of have to go to the bathroom," Aria said woozily.†   (source)
  • Aria nervously picked at the side of her thumb.†   (source)
  • He couldn't be wondering about … ," Aria started.†   (source)
  • Aria looked out at the parking lot again.†   (source)
  • Aria took another sip of the Scotch and realized she'd finished it.†   (source)
  • As Aria and Ali walked toward the car to leave a note, they realized there was someone inside.†   (source)
  • Aria put her hands over her eyes, blocking out the memory.†   (source)
  • Hanna Marin turned around and smirked at Aria.†   (source)
  • Aria shuffled back to her seat and sat down.†   (source)
  • "Hang on … ," Aria muttered, rooting around in her bag for her phone.†   (source)
  • Trouble was Aria wasn't sure who Aria was.†   (source)
  • Aria wondered if the Kahns really had a spare Navigator to crash.†   (source)
  • One of them was Mike Montgomery, her old friend Aria's little brother.†   (source)
  • Aria couldn't believe he was wearing the same T-shirt he wore when he was thirteen.†   (source)
  • "I totally want to live here," Aria said.†   (source)
  • There, she became Icelandic Aria, the best Aria yet.†   (source)
  • And Aria fell in love … a few times, actually.†   (source)
  • Aria felt all of her words swarming like bees in her mouth.†   (source)
  • Later that night, Byron came up to Aria's room to explain.†   (source)
  • Before drinking, Aria pulled on Spencer's sleeve.†   (source)
  • But hadn't she said she wanted to be Icelandic Aria?†   (source)
  • "About yesterday," Aria said at the same time.†   (source)
  • Aria cupped her hands around her pint glass.†   (source)
  • The only person who knew about Aria's dad was … Alison.†   (source)
  • Aria put her hand on Spencer's shoulder.†   (source)
  • Aria noticed a Snoopy Band-Aid wrapped around his left pinkie finger.†   (source)
  • Aria put the pinkie finger that had touched Ezra's into her mouth.†   (source)
  • What if Emily already knew Aria's secret?†   (source)
  • Aria held hers up to silence it; Emily struggled to operate her Nokia.†   (source)
  • Alison gave Aria a long look, and a black, gelatinous substance began dripping out her nostrils.†   (source)
  • Aria walked in and noticed a claw-foot bathtub in the middle of Ezra's living room.†   (source)
  • When you were giving that report … " "You touched my hand today," Aria teased.†   (source)
  • Aria felt Ezra's eyes burning into her back.†   (source)
  • Aria walked into the narrow hallway of the faculty wing.†   (source)
  • And she had no patience with his arias of the unreal.†   (source)
  • One of the pirates scrambles up to balance on the railing, gyrates one fist in the air, and hollers: "ba ka na zu ma lay ga no mala aria ma na p0 no a ab zu … " By that point all the other pirates have stopped laughing, gotten serious looks on their faces, and joined in, bellowing their own private streams of babble, rattling the air with a profound hoarse ulu]ation.†   (source)
  • Maybe Aria wanted all her old friends to have a reunion— of course, being away, she wouldn't know how far apart they'd grown.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry, Aria," he finally mumbled.†   (source)
  • The last time Aria saw her, Mona had put a billion teensy braids in her hair and was riding her Razor scooter.†   (source)
  • As Aria drove slowly down Ezra's street, she noticed one house with Greek letters mounted onto its siding.†   (source)
  • Aria told him about how when she was little, she kept a can of split pea soup named Pee as a pet and cried when her mom tried to cook Pee for dinner.†   (source)
  • On the plane back from Iceland, Aria had read in a Seventeen she found in her seat pocket that boys liked enthusiastic, positive girls.†   (source)
  • Usually, Aria could take Ali's inquisitiveness and even her teasing— she was okay with being the "weird kid" of the group.†   (source)
  • The turn signals had stopped working last night, so he was driving Aria and Mike to their second day of school and taking the car to the shop.†   (source)
  • Aria couldn't quite believe it, either.†   (source)
  • Aria pushed her hair out of her eyes.†   (source)
  • Aria picked at a loose strand of wool on the fingerless gloves she'd knitted during a long train ride to Greece.†   (source)
  • Ali made out with Noel, Spencer made out with James, and she, Emily, and Aria sat on logs, shared cigarettes, and miserably waited for them to finish.†   (source)
  • I cried the whole way home," Aria admitted, feeling like herself—her new, improved Icelandic Aria self—for the first time since she'd been back.†   (source)
  • He gave Aria a wet kiss on her cheek.†   (source)
  • There was toilet paper all over the floor and it smelled even worse than the rest of the bar, but Aria didn't care.†   (source)
  • Like Hanna, a few desks over—if only Aria could walk up to Hanna and talk to her about this, ask her questions about Ali.†   (source)
  • So not only was this an excellent day to become fiber student, it was also a great opportunity to show everyone how cool Icelandic Aria was.†   (source)
  • Wednesday morning, Aria's father, Byron, rubbed his bushy black hair and hand-signaled out the Subaru window that he was making a left-hand turn.†   (source)
  • Aria shoved the phone back into her purse as calmly as she could, and then banged the rubbery soles of her boots together.†   (source)
  • Aria Montgomery's fifteen-year-old brother, Michelangelo, wagged his head out of the family's Outback window like a golden retriever.†   (source)
  • As Ezra then started talking about five-paragraph themes and the class's syllabus, Aria couldn't concentrate.†   (source)
  • Aria wore a blue, purple, and fuchsia-striped cotton boatneck dress, a navy velvet jacket, and cowboy boots.†   (source)
  • It was Aria Montgomery, wearing a tight, faded red University of Iceland T-shirt, a frayed denim mini, and red John Fluevog cowboy boots.†   (source)
  • He'd never said so, but Aria believed Meredith was the reason her dad took his sabbatical when he did.†   (source)
  • Every year her father invited his students over to their house for get-to-know-you cocktails, and Aria had seen that girl walk through her very door.†   (source)
  • Aria scratched the back of her head.†   (source)
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