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| 0b11a64 | Lady Cinderford,' said the Dowager, referring to her widowed sister-in-law in accents of loathing, 'will act as hostess at Stanyon over my dead body!' 'That would be something quite out of the ordinary way,' murmured the Earl. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 476de2b | Do let me assure you that if ever Endymion should ask me to give a ball in his honour I shall take steps to have him placed under restraint! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 7e3fd43 | Of a certainty Madame has died," Leonie said wickedly. "Tiens, c'est bien drole!" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 56e5e58 | Surprise is the essence of attack! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 16fe2f4 | Gone Groupy, has she?' said Hugh. 'How rotten for Tom!' 'Well, it is rather, because Connie's started forgiving him for all sorts of things he never knew he'd done. We're hoping that she'll get over it quickly, because she's president of the Women's Conservative Association, besides running the Mothers, and the Village Club, and now that she's a God-guided citizen she simply hasn't a moment to attend to Good Works. I don't know why it is, b.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| bdc6926 | I love you, you know,' he said conversationally. 'Will you marry me?' The manner in which he made this abrupt proposal struck her as being so typical of him that a shaky laugh was dragged from her. 'Of all the graceless ways of making me an offer - ! No, no, you are not serious! you cannot be!' 'Of course I'm serious! A pretty hobble I should be in if I weren't, and you accepted my offer! The thing is that it is such a devil of a time sin.. | shakespeare-quotes | Georgette Heyer | |
| 16c1d6c | He took her face between his hands, turning it up, and looking down at her for a moment before he kissed her. "I do love you, Jenny," he said gently. "Very much indeed-- you are part of my life. Julia was never that-only a boy's impractical dream." | regency-romance | Georgette Heyer | |
| 4a4c182 | If you mention Bella's name to me again, Gil, I am likely to do you a mischief!' Sherry warned him. 'I never cared the snap of my fingers for that wretched girl, and if you are not assured of that, ask her! Why, God save the mark, she may be a beauty, but give me my Kitten! Bella, with her airs and her graces, and her miffs, and her curst sharp tongue! No, I thank you! What's more, no man who had lived with Kitten would look twice at the Be.. | hero-and-anthony true-love | Georgette Heyer | |
| 17bbcda | Y'know, dear old boy- not my business- but she don't mean an ounce of harm! Only saying to George last night; dear little soul! Not up to snuff at all!' 'No, my God!' agreed the Viscount feelingly. 'Tell you what, Sherry: if I had a wife, which I'm deuced glad I haven't, I'd rather have one like your Kitten than all the Incomparables put together.' 'You would?' said Sherry, staring at him. 'I would,' said Mr. Ringwood firmly. | hero-wantage | Georgette Heyer | |
| 14a9707 | She sighed and leaned her cheek against his shoulder. "How comfortable this is! she said. "And so delightfully vulgar! Does plain Mr Dash put his arm round ladies in hackney coaches?" "When not in gaol he does," the Duke responded." | humour regency true-love | Georgette Heyer | |
| 36c7dfe | Frederica tells the park-keepers that Lufra is a purebred "Barcelona collie". | comedy-absurd dogs | Georgette Heyer | |
| af848e1 | The sight which met her eyes held her frozen on the threshold, and the thought flashed across her mind that she knew now how it felt to die | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 8e0c68e | THE BILL FOR DARRELL BOB HOUSTON THE BEET IS THE MOST INTENSE of vegetables. The onion has as many pages as War and Peace, every one of which is poignant enough to make a strong man weep, but the various ivory parchments of the onion and the stinging green bookmark of the onion are quickly charred by belly juices and bowel bacteria. Only the beet departs the body the same color as it went in. Beets consumed at dinner will, come morning, sto.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 45cc906 | We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." --Tom Robbins" | Zane | ||
| de04212 | There were, in his opinion, drugs that diminished ego and drugs that engorged ego, which is to say, revelatory drugs and delusory drugs; and on a psychic level, at least, he favored awe over swagger. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ed4942c | As you know, I've been sick and stupid for a long time. I have a lot to make up for, | Tom Robbins | ||
| 73b9a7e | There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 0520cd4 | If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline. | decline feminism patriarchy | Tom Robbins | |
| ae5622c | The odd thing was, Dickie longed to experience that feeling. It wasn't any kind of death wish: there was not a suicidal cell in his body. rather, it seemed that the very sensation, the inner force that made Dickie's scrotum tighten, his throat constrict, and his eyeballs swim in dizziness also made him want to tumble into the precipitous void. And ultimately, his fear of longing to fall was greater, more disturbing, than his fear of falling.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| c6b1b13 | Whether I'm unduly sensitive to this pain because I'm a princess--could the whole world be the pea under my mattress?--I don't know, but because I'm a princess, I might be able to do something to help lessen humanity's pain. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 03917a8 | THE SKY IS MORE IMPERSONAL than the sea. | Tom Robbins | ||
| da19a35 | tqblh andhk lqdrh kn `myqan l~ Hd l yqlqh m`h lyqyn b'n kl mknyt ltSHyH btt mGlq@ | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a938b7f | I didn't do any of what they told me,' she said, 'because the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was all something dirty that shouldn't be done to anybody, much less to the poor man who had the bad luck to marry me.' So she let herself get undressed openly in the lighted bedroom, safe now from all the acquired fears that had ruined her life. 'It was very easy,' she told me, 'because I'd made up my mind to die. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| e9b856b | He had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his companions at arms took to be boldness, but the more her image wallowed in the dunghill of the war, the more the war resembled Amaranta. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 8b987ed | Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoralization. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 8da92c7 | The oppressiveness of twilight filled the world. | twilight-quote | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 2ecf920 | The only thing that comes for sure is death. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 98ba389 | Ay, hijo --suspiro--. A mi me bastaria con estar seguro de que tu y yo existimos en este momento. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 75a0eec | Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager so lucid or dangerous, than a poet. | poetry poets | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 669f082 | Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, | cats dogs life loyalty traitor | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| de32427 | wfkr 'n hdhh lmnsb@ tqtDy lq mw`Z@ tbyn qdr@ lshyTn `l~ ltsrb l~ qlb lnsn `n Tryq Hwsh lkhms | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 1bef631 | It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good | love old too-late wisdom youth | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 746bc26 | la memoria del corazon elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y que gracias a ese artificio logramos sobrellevar el pasado. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d8a2b9c | t nightfall, at the oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes rose | love-in-the-time-of-cholera | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| df8a634 | Dulce Olivia had sharp wits and a strong character, and it was not easy to detect her madness | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 0de9a6e | The Liberals, he said, were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests, to institute civil marriage and divorce, to recognize the rights of illegitimate children as equal to those of legitimate ones, and to cut the country up into a federal system that would take power away from the supreme authority. The Conservatives, on the other hand, who had received their power directly from God, proposed the establishment of public order and fam.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 23f1cc0 | Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opportune moment. | virtue | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 0f92428 | You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house." | spite | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| d3cc6af | the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 1637e8e | He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end. | intuition | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 8daf208 | As far as I'm concerned, I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| b152333 | y sin que el le hubiera revelado que estaba llorando de amor, ella reconocio de inmediato el llanto mas antiguo de la historia del hombre. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 09ec14c | He always believed he loved his daughter, but the fear of rabies obliged the Marquis to admit to himself that this was a lie for the sake of convenience. Bernarda, on the other hand, did not even ask herself the question, for she knew very well she did not love the girl and the girl did not love her, and both things seemed fitting. A good part of the hatred each of them felt for Sierva Maria was caused by the other's qualities in her. | hatred mimetic-rivalry | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 952fb99 | Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.' 'Saint Thomas said it, and I will be guided by him,' said the Abbess: '"One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth." | demons doubt st-thomas truth | Gabriel García Márquez |