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fb1520a All for owls and owls for all! Kathryn Lasky
5bf8938 gaddergludder, Kathryn Lasky
6a11ad4 Lupus Star Wolves (the spirits of dead wolves who have traveled to the Cave of Souls) air ceilidh fyre (lightning) chieftains (clan leaders) lords (pack leaders) skreeleens byrrgis leaders captains lieutenants sublieutenants corporals packers gnaw wolves unranked Obeas owls other four-legged animals other birds, except owls plants earth fire water Kathryn Lasky
dad06b7 the end of the world as they knew it. Kathryn Lasky
46db59b For those who believe. Kathryn Lasky
ad9eb42 Barn Owls were known for their extremely sensitive hearing. They could contract and expand the muscles of their facial disks to funnel the sound source to their unevenly placed earholes. Kathryn Lasky
3e89508 Soren had been given the number 82-85. He couldn't remember what his previous number had Kathryn Lasky
5b94123 Nettie turned her eyes toward me. "Bookworm, are you?" The way she said that word absolutely made my skin crawl. She made me sound like I was some spineless, mindless creature living on mold underground. I do love books, but there is nothing wormy about it. I would much prefer to be called a bat than a worm any day of the week. Just that afternoon at the library storytime, Nancy had read a beautiful poem about a baby bat being born. It desc.. reading Kathryn Lasky
d139f4b Cag maglosc," Faolan muttered, and then launched into what sounded to Edme like a string of Old Wolf curse words." Kathryn Lasky
aaf97af I just love the way those old-time authors like Mr. Dickens or George Eliot (who was actually a woman, in case you didn't know) stop smack-dab in the middle of the story and say stuff like, "patient reader," and then give some little side comment." reading books Kathryn Lasky
485ede2 It was in Durmond that I made the wonderful discovery of interlibrary loan, the greatest invention since the light bulb. [...] All the libraries were linked together, so no matter where I moved, as long as I had a library card I would be part of a web as powerful and beautiful as the one in Charlotte's Web. Just as Charlotte the spider wrote messages in her web that transformed Wilbur the ordinary pig into "some pig," this web would transfo.. libraries library reading Kathryn Lasky
609d729 Mist Kathryn Lasky
5f02aa6 I couldn't believe it. It wasn't just that he knew about Narnia. I could tell that he knew what I meant by a Narnia cubby. It was all there in his eyes. He knew that I didn't actually think I was Lucy going through a real door to magical lands. He knew that the cubby in the Roadmaster was a sane person's ticket to freedom of thought. reading Kathryn Lasky
50a1951 To belong did not mean ownership. You were not someone's property. The "be" syllable was about existence: "to be" yourself and "to be" in a special place that no one else could occupy within your family except you. The "long" part was about the heart, a place in the heart where a family met and lived together. They didn't just put up with each other. They longed for each other. To belong was not a state of mind but a state of heart." family Kathryn Lasky
89c7b35 Be proud. Be proud you are a soldier. Be proud you are a woman. historical-fiction Kathryn Lasky
6e0cc39 If fairness were the rule, the good would not die young, as Coryn, the king of the Great Tree, had. Kathryn Lasky
488dbad The moment she entered she felt wrapped in a fragile golden light like a radiant mist that seemed to settle around her. What was it about the mews? she often wondered. It seemed to transform the simplest things, like stone and wood and the very air one breathed, into something different. When she crossed the threshold, she felt as if she had entered another world. Kathryn Lasky
cc7f8bc This tea is for people who really appreciate tea. Ordinary tea is for anyone. Alexander McCall Smith
402fa1f The real teacher is endurance. Lawrence Durrell
681e2f0 It was all very well occupying the moral high ground on electoral reform, but what really mattered, she thought, was how you treated your mother. Alexander McCall Smith
fcbd47a There were three chairs on the verandah--comfortable old wooden chairs that probably dated from Protectorate days. "The British brought chairs," Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni once said. "They took chairs with them wherever they went in the world. And they left the chairs behind when they went home." Alexander McCall Smith
c15215d Problems have a way of solving themselves. Alexander McCall Smith
ecaaab1 Do you think your dog might have been drunk when he bit these people, Mr Lordie? Alexander McCall Smith
59d7983 her daddy, as she called him, and of whom she thought at some point every day, every single day, and whom she had loved with all her heart. Alexander McCall Smith
973b397 we don't see our parents as people. Your daddy was also a man--a very good man too--but he was a man. Alexander McCall Smith
2d01d4c but then where would one end if one started to compose a list of the wrongs that this world had seen? Better perhaps, thought Mma Ramotswe, to make a list of those things that were right with the world, of people who had made life better for other people, or who had done what they had been called to do with honour and without complaint. Alexander McCall Smith
d09a482 She assigned the shirt a number and turned to the next prize. This was a set of six fish knives and forks, made by Hamilton and Inches, and a very handsome prize for somebody. This would be popular at a Conservative function, but would be useless at a Labour Party event. They had no idea, she believed, of the use of fish knives and forks and used the same cutlery for everything. That was part of the problem. The Liberal Democrats, of course.. Alexander McCall Smith
c6c93ff you did not look for a winner who would take everything; you found a way of allowing people to save face; you found a way of healing rather than imposing. Alexander McCall Smith
8e1ee9d Animals, like people, did not ask to be who or what they were, and to make life difficult for others simply for being what they were seemed to her to be fundamentally unkind. Alexander McCall Smith
9a1d41e Isabel's private theory of moral proximity, the basis of those obligations that came into existence when we found ourselves close enough to others to be able to witness or feel their needs, or when we were in some other way linked to their plight. We could not deal with all the suffering or need in the world, but we could--and should--deal with that sliver of suffering that was reasonably close to us. Alexander McCall Smith
ddd78a9 My old friend," he began, "is down below, his face we'll see no more, for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4" Alexander McCall Smith
7653ecb Because laughs never die away entirely," said Jamie. "At least, if you believe in Marconi." Alexander McCall Smith
c850a48 People's lives are delicate; you cannot interfere with them without running the risk of changing them profoundly. A chance remark, a careless involvement, may make the difference between a life of happiness and one of sorrow. Alexander McCall Smith
a5e4b2d Cattle had no vote, nor the words to express a view, but their feelings ranked above just about everything else in the country. Alexander McCall Smith
0702ff5 What I said to you was private. We can have private reservations about a person's work, but that doesn't mean to say that we have to spell those out to him. It's called tact, Isabel! Alexander McCall Smith
2ad3eba Anybody in any employment in Botswana was expected to engage somebody to help in the house. There was nothing extravagant about this; it was, in fact, a form of sharing: if you had a job, you had money, and money needed to be spread around. The people who helped in the house were often paid a pittance and expected to work long hours, but they were desperate for any job and were pleased to take on what came their way. Alexander McCall Smith
3e40ca3 MMA RAMOTSWE observed speed limits for two reasons. One of these was that she believed that laws were there to be obeyed, and that if everybody drove as fast as they liked there would be mayhem on the roads. Alexander McCall Smith
c1b1af0 She could turn away and say that they had nothing to do with her, or she could accept that they had somehow touched her skirt. ...we all had a skirt, and those who touched our skirt became our concern. Alexander McCall Smith
1c64c68 We all had to say goodbye, sooner or later, to those we loved--or they had to say goodbye to us. Those were the only two possibilities that this world allowed. But no matter how much we tried to face up to it, it never became easier. Alexander McCall Smith
d50d9ac Or would Hell be an endless loop of boy bands or rap? Either would be torture. Alexander McCall Smith
aa44294 You do not have to read a book to understand how the world works. You just have to keep your eyes open. Alexander McCall Smith
8a348d5 when she had those dreams at night, he was there, as if he had never died, although she knew, even in the dream, that he had. One day she would join him, she knew, whatever people said about how we came to an end when we took our last breath. Some people mocked you if you said that you joined others when your time came. Well, they could laugh, those clever people, but we surely had to hope, and a life without hope of any sort was no life: i.. hope Alexander McCall Smith
df4de5d He is a good, kind man," said Mma Potokwane. "And such men are often too busy. I have noticed that round here too. That man I was talking to just then--one of our groundsmen--he is like that. He is so kind that everybody asks him to do everything. We had a bad-tempered man working here once and he had nothing to do because nobody, apart form myself, of course, had the courage to ask him to do anything." kind Alexander McCall Smith
67a559d We are all human, she would say. Men particularly. You must not be ashamed. Alexander McCall Smith