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| 786a1aa | The street sprinkler went past and, as its rasping rotary broom spread water over the tarmac, half the pavement looked as if it had been painted with a dark stain. A big yellow dog had mounted a tiny white bitch who stood quite still. In the fashion of colonials the old gentleman wore a light jacket, almost white, and a straw hat. Everything held its position in space as if prepared for an apotheosis. In the sky the towers of Notre-Dame gat.. | Georges Simenon | ||
| 717fb04 | It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and everyone else. They [Americans] were almost all of them like that. And it definitely got Maigret's back up. It made him think of clothing that was too neat, too clean, too well-pressed. | americans cheerfulness prosperous | Georges Simenon | |
| 900c183 | E terribile pensare che siamo tutti uomini, tutti destinati, chi piu chi meno, a portare il nostro fardello sotto un cielo sconosciuto, e che non vogliamo fare il minimo sforzo per capirci a vicenda. | Georges Simenon | ||
| 10b0c03 | It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you'd eaten the same thing. | Ron Rash | ||
| 80c1d12 | Then it became clear that it was a song, the loneliest sort of song because the notes changed so little, like one bird calling and waiting for another to answer. It was as lonely a sound as she'd ever heard. | Ron Rash | ||
| 0ea75c9 | He carries what he feels for people deep inside. Even as a kid he was that way," Aunt Margaret said. "Your momma knows that." But I had wondered then as I did now what good love was that couldn't be expressed." | love | Ron Rash | |
| cae2b67 | Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. Those who use it and those who endure it are turned to stone... a soul which has entered the province of force will not escape this except by a miracle. | Ron Rash | ||
| 281bc61 | The worst thing the nineteen sixties did to this country was introduce drugs to rednecks, | Ron Rash | ||
| 078ab8e | We find, counterintuitively, that a small population correlates with shorter humans, and a larger population correlates with taller humans. This only makes sense in light of the FSM theory of gravity. With more people on earth today, there are fewer Noodly Appendages to go around, so we each receive less touching--pushing down toward the earth--and thus, with less force downward, we're taller. | gravity | Bobby Henderson | |
| 0c67d2e | And yet, without discipline or direction, they'll end up washing cars, or unclaimed bodies in the city-state's morgue. | Sanyika Shakur | ||
| 5074c2a | every once in a while, maybe twice a year, I dream of blood. It tastes like copper pennies on your tongue. It's hot, hotter than you expect, and very wet at first, but it clots even as it fills your mouth. It sticks in your throat but you swallow it down, you can feel it stringy and dark in the back of your throat but you force it down so you can have some more, another mouthful, and another. I know it so well now. The dryness of it, the cl.. | David Wellington | ||
| 950fc08 | In the dark ages a vampire could live for decades unopposed, feeding nightly on people whose only defense was to bar their windows and lock their doors and always, always, be home before sundown. When it became necessary to slay a vampire there was only one way it could be done. There were no guns and certainly no jackhammers at the time. The vampire slayers would gather up every able-bodied male in the community. The mob of them would go a.. | David Wellington | ||
| b01fd73 | He did not waste time greeting her, but fell upon her at once with a vicious snarl. With his powerful jaws he tore at her, pulled her apart. He ripped open her guts and they spilled with a rank smell across the broken road surface. He tore off her leg and threw it into the darkness like so much poisoned meat. The pain was intense, but she could not complain or fight him off. She lacked the energy to even raise her head. He tore and bit and .. | David Wellington | ||
| b2a48d0 | Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool? | humor witty | Lindsey Davis | |
| 519c16d | He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a specification for emergency repairs. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| 841a01a | Some men are born lucky. Others are born Marcus Didius Falco. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| c6b2b3d | I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity. | Lindsey Davis | ||
| f4434d5 | Lazily...possessively he ran a hand down her back. " , again," Shelby murmured. With a quiet laugh, Alan stroked up and down until she was ready to purr. "Shelby..." She gave another sigh as an answer and snuggled closer. "Shelby,there's something warm and fluffy under my feet." " " "If it's your cat, he's not breathing." "MacGregor." He kissed the top of her head. "What?" She gave a muffled laugh against his shoulder. "MacGregor," she repe.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| ad9058e | I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought. | history military-history | Shelby Foote | |
| bfabac6 | The politicians were in full bay, particularly those of his own party who had been urging, without success, his support of antislavery legislation which he feared would lose him the border states, held to the Union so far by his promise that no such laws would be passed. It also seemed to these Republicans that entirely too many Democrats were seated in high places, specifically in the cabinet and the army; and now their anger was increased.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| d4052d2 | Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains--its successful maintenance against a formidable attempt to overthrow it. It is now for them to demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly carry an election can also suppress a rebellion, that ballots are the rightful and peaceful successor.. | Shelby Foote | ||
| df1d25c | One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals. | decisions goals identity life respponsibilities values | Terri Apter | |
| d8f3a4d | the prospect of soon losing her companion seemed to give force to every sweet quality and charm which Edith possessed. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 72c4c20 | There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought that in some of old took the form of Prophecy. To those who have large capability of loving and suffering, united with great power of firm endurance, there comes a time in their woe, when they are lifted out of the contemplation of their individual case into a searching inquiry into the nature of their cala.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| db6152c | When God will not use thee in one kind, yet He will in another. A soul that desires to serve and honour Him shall never want opportunity to do it; nor must thou so limit the Holy One of Israel as to think He hath but one way in which He can glorify Himself by thee. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| ec9199d | Sometimes when I've thought o' my life, and the little pleasure I've had in it, I've believed that, maybe, I was one of those doomed to die by the falling of a star from heaven. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 618d6e7 | Aye, aye! good-natured, jolly, full of fun; there are a number of other names for the good qualities the devil leaves his children, as bait to catch gudgeons with. D'ye think folk could be led astray by one who was every way bad? | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| f25b00c | I had such a mother as few are blest with; a woman of strong power, and firm resolve. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 84999c5 | Indeed! I am truly glad to hear it. I always always fond of Osborne; and, do you know, I never really took to Roger; I respected him and all that, of course. But to compare him with Mr. Henderson! Mr. Henderson is so handsome and well-bred, and gets all his gloves from Houbigant! | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| f10553f | Bu en kotu zamanda, onu 'benim' diye cagirma umudum olmasa bile Margaret'in buyuyup kendisi oldugu yeri gormek istedim... | north-and-south | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 324943c | Mr Thornton sighed as he took in all this with one of his sudden comprehensive glances. And then he turned his back to the young ladies, and threw himself, with an effort, but with all his heart and soul, into a conversation with Mr Hale. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| cb169d1 | She continued her own studies, principally attending to German, and to Literature; and every Sunday she went alone to the German and English chapels. Her walks too were solitary, and principally taken in the allee defendue, where she was secure from intrusion. This solitude was a perilous luxury to one of her temperament; so liable as she was to morbid and acute mental suffering. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 0b24799 | Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence. | france funny history louis-xiv north-and-south pride respect reverence | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 575880d | North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place. | diversity friendship | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| bf27d84 | The first question sobbed out by his choking voice, oppressed with emotion, was-- "Where is she?" They led him to the room where his mother sat. They had told her of her son's acquittal, and now she was laughing, and crying, and talking, and giving way to all those feelings which she had restrained with such effort during the last few days. They brought her son to her, and she threw herself upon his neck, weeping there. He returned her embr.. | love realization relief | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 4f763e1 | And as for your hair!it's worse than ever.Can't you drench it in water to take those untidy twists and twirls out of it?' 'It only makes it curl more and more whey it gets dry,' said Molly, sudden tears coming into her eyes as a recollection came before her like a picture seen long ago and forgotten for years-a young mother washing and dressing her little girl; placing the half-naked darling on her knee, and twining the wet rings of dark ha.. | mother-s-love | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 1c51191 | Do I not know anxiety, though I go about well-dressed, and have food enough? Oh, Bessy, God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| a79ba53 | put in yo'r pipe, and smoke it, | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| ff48dd6 | No, its the poor I tell you, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich knows nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds..." Chap. 1, p. 12" | rich-people unfairness | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 3dfcb02 | where the stars arose, and twinkled and disappeared behind the great umbrageous trees before she went to bed. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 636fd84 | But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to take in many interests, | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 16388fc | She must just submit, like many another, to be misunderstood; | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 7b8f0f6 | Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| a65d454 | It is part of His plan to send suffering to bring out a higher good; but surely it's also part of His plan that as much of the burden of suffering as can be should be lightened by those whom it is His pleasure to make happy and content in their own circumstances. | Elizabeth Gaskell |