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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3633b14 | The past is but the beginning of a beginning. --H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future | Laurie R. King | ||
| a5e61b6 | Pray tell," she said, although her voice told him not to. He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ..." | Laurie R. King | ||
| 815cb56 | I have never found 'luck' a dependable companion | Laurie R. King | ||
| 894a6f8 | A Scotchwoman's Shortbread Biscuits Cream together 1/2 pound (1 cup) warm butter with 3/4 cup dark brown sugar. Work in 2 1/4 cups flour--slightly less if the mixture is too dry to hold together. Chill briefly, then divide in half. Pat out in two 8-10" circles on a large baking sheet (thinner for crisper, thicker for more cake-like). Cut through with a knife into eight equal wedges, but do not separate the pieces. Prick all over wit.. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 290b84c | Scones (flavoured with outrage, optional--see "My Story") Mix together: 2 cups flour 4 t. baking powder 3/4 t. salt 2-4 T. sugar (depending on whether scones are to be sweet or savoury) Cut into the flour mixture: 1/3 cup butter When the mixture looks like coarse breadcrumbs, add any flavourings (handful of grated cheese with herbs, and green onions; lemon rind; dried cranberries, currents, or blueberries, etc). Beat together: 3/4 cup mi.. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 8fea1f1 | Why was the mind said to have an eye and not a hand, or a tongue? Perhaps touch, taste, odour, sound were linked to the heart rather than the intellect. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 84bf025 | No doubt after the emperor was overthrown in 1911, your gardener would have joined the rest of the world in cutting the queue and taking on the laws and customs of his adoptive land. Before that, his assuming Western dress would have been dangerous for his family in China. | Laurie R. King | ||
| faf6fa6 | Light had dawned in the utter darkness. | Laurie R. King | ||
| d835208 | and Vivian eyed something no one else could see. Then | Laurie R. King | ||
| a4fedd5 | And why was this third dream still with me, lingering at my shoulder like some telegraph boy awaiting a reply? | Laurie R. King | ||
| d93d014 | Lady Molly, perhaps? | Laurie R. King | ||
| 7183b95 | do to have | Laurie R. King | ||
| a49f95a | ratiocination. | Laurie R. King | ||
| d80179d | and opened his mouth to speak in that precise drawl which is the trademark of the overly educated upper class english gentleman. A high voice: A biting one: definitely an eccentric. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 886d2a3 | I looked back to see Holmes mincing within my footsteps, his skirt drawn up to reveal the trousers below. Were it not for the threat hanging over us, I would have given out with a girlish giggle at the sight, but I refrained. I passed the gates with the revolver in my hand, but there was no human there, only a scurry in the dustbins. | Laurie R. King | ||
| ffa1286 | Mrs Porter, you see before you the product of an outmoded educational system, which is based upon beating Latin and Greek into a boy's mind before he has a chance to meet the penny-dreadful. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 2c0dfdb | The response to a festering sore was not to extol its virtues, but to lance the thing and let the poison bleed out. | Laurie R. King | ||
| 042b098 | Many writers, good writers who ought to know better, focus so tightly on the structure demanded by a crime story that they lose track of the fact that they are writing a novel. Accusations of both sensationalism and trivialisation are, alas, often justified. | fiction genre genre-fiction technique thriller writing | Laurie R. King | |
| 559bc50 | Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness. | Laurie R. King | ||
| b9c1de4 | A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. --RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) | Laurie R. King | ||
| fa79b0b | Holmes, didn't you tell me a few weeks ago that there has been a series of burglaries from inns and public houses in Eastbourne?" "I hardly think two qualifies as a series, Russell. You are interrupting a delicate haemoglobin experiment, you know." | Laurie R. King | ||
| 3789340 | Millay sonnets sound like a lecherous cat. | ernest-hemingway | Michael S. Reynolds | |
| 00acb76 | I am not very clever about Americanisms -- and I understand they change very quickly." | Agatha Christie | ||
| 9f4fc17 | Perhaps a little of Trollope, but not to drown in him. | Agatha Christie | ||
| e972f31 | The level of civilization in Texas definitely wasn't very high if the old man was an example of it. | old-west | Larry McMurtry | |
| 71673f1 | There was something different about her, Jake had to admit. She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met in a woman. Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains. He was not so sure he would ever get to Lorie. Even when sh.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 06bef18 | I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." Call" | Larry McMurtry | ||
| def8ff3 | I ain't kin to nobody in this world. I don't want to be. I won't be. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 04a5bbf | swinging off the bay. "We rode all night," | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 7ff329b | She may know what I am, though," Lorena said. "Yes, she'll know you're a human being. You don't have to duck your head to nobody. Half the women in this country probably started out like you did, workin' in saloons." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 2424d62 | Maude Rainey was built like a barrel, with a bosom as big as buckets and a voice that some claimed would make hair fall out. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 99b84c1 | My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits," Augustus said. "And getting drunk on the porch. I've probably slipped a little on the biscuits in the last few days, and I've lost the porch, but I can still talk with the best of them." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c675dc2 | they might last another year or two, | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a6aa677 | As the day died and the afterglow stretched upward in the soft, empty sky, the Hat Creek outfit, seven strong, crossed the river and rode southeast, toward the Hacienda Flores. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 3d3fc5f | There's nothing that sweetens the breath like a cedar toothpick, unless it's mint. And mint don't grow in these parts. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| ff2e095 | When Famous Shoes finished his song he noticed that the young white man was asleep. During the day he had not trusted enough, and had worn himself out with pointless scurryings. Perhaps even then the song he had just sung was working in the young man's dreams; perhaps as he grew older he would learn to trust mysteries and not fear them. Many white men could not trust things unless they could be explained; and yet the most beautiful things, .. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 2f7f3a8 | He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men. Those | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 47d7ddc | It seemed to him the highest principle, loyalty. He preferred it to honor. He had never been exactly sure what men meant when they spoke of their honor, though it had been a popular word during the time of the War. He was sure, though, what he meant when he spoke of loyalty. A man didn't desert his comrades, his troop, his leader. If he did he was, in Call's book, worthless. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 3d3a7da | What if I hit the man?" Newt said. "That's his worry," Call said. "Not letting him ride away is your worry." They" | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8b1ad82 | Looking at her, though, was like looking at the hills. The hills stayed as they were. You could go to them, if you had the means, but they extended no greeting. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 91406d7 | The truth was, most plans did fail, to one degree or another, for one reason or another. He had survived as a Ranger because he was quick to respond to what he had actually found, not because his planning was infallible. In | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a6f2a0b | figured Godwin | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f01982d | A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit--then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4057474 | Son, this is a sad thing," Augustus said. "Loss of life always is. But the life is lost for good. Don't you go attempting vengeance. You've got more urgent business. If I ever run into Blue Duck I'll kill him. But if I don't, somebody else will. He's big and mean, but sooner or later he'll meet somebody bigger and meaner. Or a snake will bite him or a horse will fall on him, or he'll get hung, or one of his renegades will shoot him in the b.. | Larry McMurtry |