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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7d90095 | She would not go meekly to that fate. If the rest of her life was meant to be miserable and forlorn, at least she could choose the path that would take her there. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 5e9fc7d | marriage would necessitate a change of religion, the still-hesitant Alix at first refused. But the otherwise impassive Nicky was nothing if not determined. The very day after Ernie and Ducky were married, the overwhelmed princess finally agreed to become both Russian Orthodox and wife of the heir to the Russian throne. Just as Queen Victoria, the preeminent guest at the festivities, was finishing her breakfast, Ella burst in on her grandmot.. | Jerrold M. Packard | ||
| fc1f44c | and even at Christmas, there is nothing to be gained by wishing for what one can't possibly have. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 2e0fc2c | Of course, she wasn't entirely certain what kind of man she should like to encourage. She knew she wanted someone respectable but not dull. Exciting but not dangerous. Strong but not overbearing. Loyal and trustworthy but not a lapdog. And this mythical paragon would love her without reservation for the rest of his days. In short, the man of her dreams would be very nearly perfect and probably did not exist. Leo said something she didn't .. | searching standard | Victoria Alexander | |
| 6f67e9e | I do hope your friend is not as annoying as you are." "Goodness, why on earth would I have a friend who wasn't?" | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 4252086 | Being willing to forgive is not the same as being weak. Indeed, it takes a great deal of strength to accept someone else's acknowledgment of their mistakes. Especially if said mistakes have hurt you deeply. To allow amends to be made is not at all easy." Her gaze shifted to Camille. "One must decide whether one wishes to hold on to one's pain and anger or release it. And is the cost significant or little more than pride? It can be an enormo.. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 93e24e2 | where everyone was severely controlled by the government structures. From early childhood I was given firm instructions about what I was supposed to do, say, and even think. I was afraid to try anything new. However, I was very lucky to meet many incredible people in my life from whom I learned to dare to try everything I wanted. I absolutely have to tell you about Alexander Suvorov, whom I met several times and who became my hero and inspi.. | Victoria Boutenko | ||
| c3c84bf | desire | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 33aefc4 | Being willing to forgive is not the same as being weak. | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 4af062a | There are two kinds of women in this world, my dear. Those who wave goodbye to others starting on grand adventures and those waving back from the window of a train or the deck of a ship. - Ophelia Higginbotham | travel traveler women | Victoria Alexander | |
| 25af1e2 | Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder. ~ Lady Norcroft | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 5d8ed2c | One can never have enough tea, young man." Lady Blodgett looked at him as if he were a small and exceptionally stupid child." | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 14671ac | Epicurean cooksSharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. | Appetite | ||
| dce0465 | Read o'er this;What appetite you have. | Appetite | ||
| 3af52bf | Now good digestion wait on appetite,And health on both! | Appetite | ||
| 73532e6 | Who riseth from a feastWith that keen appetite that he sits down? | Appetite | ||
| 0506836 | Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age. | Appetite | ||
| 21a82ea | We try to hold on to the things we think will keep us safe and maintain that place we can point to an say, This is normal. Adele and her stockpile of provisions, Connie Bonine and her storefront of all that Willie left behind, Mom and her gallery wall, Dad and his antique flip-screen camera, the coral on my nightstand: all of these are records of an era past; the symbols we cling to that we might explain our present and chart our changes; t.. | Aaron Hartzler | ||
| 72dc5fb | For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost. | Connie Willis | ||
| 626ab84 | Ashes to ashes. Dust to nonsignificance. | Connie Willis | ||
| 170c5ad | This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an elopement. | Connie Willis | ||
| c192fc7 | of legend. It was impossible to imagine it overrun with the plague, the dead carts full of bodies being pulled through the narrow streets, the colleges boarded up and abandoned, and everywhere the dying and the already dead. | Connie Willis | ||
| e36be8b | There's no need to say anything to Mr. Turing. I was the one who wasn't watching where I was going" "You were the one?" Mavis said indignantly. "Turing never pays the slightest attention to where he's going. He simply plows through pedestrians" Elspeth nodded. "Someone needs to tell him he must be more careful! He could have injured you!" And I could have injured him, Mike thought. Or killed him. If Turing had lost control of his bicycle.. | bad-drivers bletchley-park driving humor ultra wwii | Connie Willis | |
| c4238b3 | Oh, it'll definitely fool the Germans," Cess said. "There's no clearer proof that there's an army in the area than beer bottles and used condoms." | humor wwii-fiction | Connie Willis | |
| c68589c | Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." --ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY, The Little Prince If" | Connie Willis | ||
| cdd0d83 | The multinationals who'd been backing Darby and Gentilla lost interest, and time travel had been handed over to historians and scientists, | Connie Willis | ||
| a4a4a8f | She nodded. "The Michigan State Library fire was caused by a student trying to burn the state draft board files so he wouldn't be drafted and ended up destroying twenty thousand volumes." | Connie Willis | ||
| 54d175b | Well, at least she's asserting herself, and you don't have to worry about her having 'squelched girl syndrome,' " she said. Mary Clare ignored that." | Connie Willis | ||
| 0c8f087 | Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's a cage with two Siamese kittens in it. Like that. | Connie Willis | ||
| d7b654a | Do you know the only way you can tell for sure the deer are there?" Mel shook his head. "By the wolves," he said." | Connie Willis | ||
| dc16835 | This gave me an early taste for humorous authors, of which there were--and are--far too few (though there are lots who labor under the misapprehension that they're funny.) | Connie Willis | ||
| 4b95984 | Madame Iritosky opened her mouth, closed it, and opened it again, looking exactly like Colonel Mering's globe-eyed ryunkin. "Fish?" Baine said, bending over her with the platter of sole. Round One to our side. Now, if only the seance would go as well." | Connie Willis | ||
| 2829e23 | her. I never felt properly sorry for schizophrenics, she thought, unable to escape the voices in their heads and fighting for their sanity with a maelstrom of noise all around them, making it impossible to think. No | Connie Willis | ||
| c18e256 | 'I promise you calm seas,' " Sir Godfrey called, and raised his hands in benediction, " 'auspicious gales, and sail so expeditious that shall catch your royal fleet far off.' " | Connie Willis | ||
| 9256202 | Kneeling on St. Mary's stone floor she had envisioned the candles and the cold, but not Lady Imeyne, waiting for Roche to make a mistake in the mass, not Eliwys or Gawyn or Rosemund. Not Father Roche, with his cutthroat's face and worn-out hose. She could never in a hundred years, in seven hundred and thirty-four years, have imagined Agnes, with her puppy and her naughty tantrums, and her infected knee. I'm glad I came, she thought. In spit.. | Connie Willis | ||
| 1f8c3f7 | Are you making something up in your head, miss?" --FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, A Little Princess Zener" | Connie Willis | ||
| d4c601a | Do it on the radio." --Educating Rita Saved" | Connie Willis | ||
| 51dbaab | The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her surprise, they all thought in chorus." -- LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass" | Connie Willis | ||
| f98487d | But the vital thing is that we act. We do not rely on hope alone, though hope is our bulwark, our light through dark days and darker nights. We also work, and fight, and endure, and it does not matter whether the part we play is large or small. The reason that God marks the fall of the sparrow is that he knows that it is as important to the world as the bulldog or the wolf. We all, all must do 'our bit.' For it is through our deeds that the.. | Connie Willis | ||
| b6c67cd | Eureka!"s like the one Archimedes had when he stepped in a bathtub and suddenly realized the answer to the problem of testing metals' density are few and far between, and mostly it's just trying and failing and trying something else, feeding in data and eliminating variables and staring at the results, trying to figure out where you went wrong." | science | Connie Willis | |
| 4505e2e | Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-- | Connie Willis | ||
| b2ed221 | sophisticated | Connie Willis | ||
| 2161169 | To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart." --DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN" | Connie Willis | ||
| 791db14 | Do you want to see his picture?" She pulled out her phone and began busily swiping, and at the next stoplight, held it over for Briddey to see. "His name's Xander." | Connie Willis |