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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. --Ray Bradbury
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How to make spiced rum. Place rum, allspice, cloves, cardamom, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel, and one vanilla bean--split lengthwise--in a jar and store in a dark place for 2 days. Strain rum using cheesecloth. Pour and enjoy.
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I also reread my Nancy Drew collection every few years.
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Finally, she turned and headed for home. She planned to fix herself a cup of lemon-ginger tea and pick a book from the stack on her coffee table. It didn't matter which title she chose, every book had something unique to offer. They were memories she'd yet to make. Worlds she'd yet to discover. Friends she'd yet to meet. And she was looking forward to making their acquaintance.
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There could be a trail of dead bodies from here to Arkansas.
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Mrs. Dower was gray. Her clothes, her hair, and the cloud above her head were all a shade of dark gray. With every breath she seemed to expel an invisible vapot of gloom.
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Draiocht. It's the Gaelic word for magic That is what you are, Ella Mae. You are Other. You are magical.
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threw me off guard." The chief's eyes crinkled"
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room without books is like a body without a soul. --MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
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Betty had her crocheting out again. The morning light winked off her needles and Olivia recognized that she was making a baby blanket.
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Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain't nothin' can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can.
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As she inched forward through the congestion on Interstate 40, a highway that had been under construction for the past ten years, her mind wandered back to the photographs Detective McDowell had emailed her.
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She then slapped a Hello Kitty bandage over the cotton
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The librarian, Ms. Glenda, has been there for ions. She has an uncanny memory for name and faces.
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But when it looked as those the clam-kicker wouldn't cooperate,
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Einstein also said that 'Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.'" He"
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A bowling ball crashed into the pins and Jane jumped and realised her task was much bigger...Storyton Hall's reputation was at stake as well. For decades, people had come to the resort seeking respite from the outside world. Now one guest was dead, and another had assaulted a housekeeper. And if it wasn't Jane's responsibility to protect the people who came to Storyton, then whose was it?
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Eric Ripert's 32 Yolks, Joanne Harris's Chocolat, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, Richard Morais's The Hundred-Foot Journey, Muriel Barbery's Gourmet Rhapsody, and Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen.
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In the end, she pulled a DVD from the cabinet below her television and finally settled onto the sofa to watch the 1940 classic, Rebecca. Olivia knew every word of the film by heart but never grew tired of it.
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to our congregation," Savannah whispered leadenly as Bryant"
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The list was a mixture of hardship and hope. Pain and renewal. It would serve as a recurring reminder that, though the past colors our present, it doesn't have to dictate the future.
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The greater part of the truth is always hidden . . . --J. R. R. Tolkien
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Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. --Pablo Neruda "Jedediah Craig. It's a pleasure"
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Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us . . . in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
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In the distance, she heard the whistle of the afternoon train. Nora never tired of its long, heartrending note. What other sound could convey both the romance of returning home and the ache of leave-taking?
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Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. "Did you"
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It's always that way when you're looking at books. An hour goes by in a minute: you don't know where the hell the time went.
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A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy. --The Arabian Nights
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The wound is the place where the light enters you. --Pablo Neruda
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That's my main priority when it comes to food. Other people are obsessed with calories, nutritional value, antioxidants. I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?
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romance authors like Catherine Coulter, Brenda Joyce, Candice Proctor, Bertrice Small, Diana Gabaldon, and Jade Lee.
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It's always that way when you're looking at books. An hour goes by in a minute: you don't know where the hell the time went. --John Dunning
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