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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 97d43c6 | A vagrant thought crossed my mind. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 2f99707 | Hey, neighbor," exclaimed the vision. It was Carey Osland in her working getup. I could see why she preferred loafers and housedresses. She looked marvelous, almost edible, but definitely not comfortable. "I'm glad to see you," Carey was saying warmly while I was decoding her identity." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 237f5c2 | He handed me the keys. My hand closed over them. It felt like a formal investiture. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 8c76492 | He was being mighty chary with my money. Now that I was so rich, I could fling open the windows and doors and set the thermostat on forty, if I wanted to do something so foolish and wasteful. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 4fa08c9 | Those things don't matter. You had no control over your past, | Charlaine Harris | ||
| da6c0b3 | I'll deal with your hang-ups if you'll deal with mine, but if you're still too scared to even try, then you're not worth waiting for. I have some goddamn pride left and I won't wait forever. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d43c7ce | Are you hurt?" asked Sergeant Burns, with reluctant professional solicitude." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 7e7c8f5 | My God, child, you look like something the cat dragged in!" Eileen bellowed. She was a suspiciously dark-haired woman about forty-five, with expensive clothes from the very best big women's store. Her makeup was heavy but well done, her perfume was intrusive but attractive, and she was one of the most overwhelming women I'd ever met. Eileen was something of a town character in Lawrenceton, and she could talk you into buying a house quicker .. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| cb36cd8 | Nothing could stop tragedy from visiting your home. The angel of death would not pass over, leaving you unscathed, no matter how large your house was. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 6bb9705 | Nothing had been poured out of its container or wantonly vandalized, but the contents had been moved as though the cabinet itself were the object of the search, not possible loot that could be taken away. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 397a8d8 | This was the trump card male bullies played, always. I was sick of it--sick of being scared of the bogeyman's dick. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 82fb50d | How could two people in love so misjudge each other? | Charlaine Harris | ||
| bdaf13c | Any place books are massed together makes me feel at home. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 351a82a | Suddenly, he had a mental image of Xylda so vivid that it almost brought tears to his eyes: this whole rush of past experiences, brought back by that one inhalation. He knew he said something to Creek before he turned to walk back to the car, but he couldn't recall what it was a minute later. He had to sit in the car for a while before he left to run his errands. He pulled out his list of errands from his pocket and pretended to be studying.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 15211de | Clovache's Voice said, "How large is the device?" Her accent was sort of like Russian, as least to my untravelled ears. ("Hau larch . . . ?") "The size of one of those cans of sweetened syrup," Batanya answered. "Ah, the burping drinks," Clovache said." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 5516730 | ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 58e86c9 | Did Lou have Luke--isn't that your little boy's name?--here in the Shakespeare hospital? | Charlaine Harris | ||
| de9f4c7 | I had never been able to fathom what people did with their free moments, if they didn't read. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 06b0f0c | the pain in my middle was the unmistakable pain of rejection. I knew the feeling so well, it was like a second skin. I sure hated to crawl back inside it. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 992aabb | the countless religious ceremonies held here had drenched the soil not with anguish, but with calm detachment, thoughts of eternity. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 8046db5 | Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." She had explained that that meant that you don't worry about tomorrow, or about things you can't change. I" | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 2b69a17 | The southern standard of niceness was this: You'd never been convicted of anything, you didn't look at other's women's husbands too openly. You wrote your thank-you notes and were polite to your elders. You had to take a keen interest in your children's upbringing. And you made sure your family was fed adequately. There were sideways and byways in this "nice" thing, but those were the general have-tos." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 6386ef8 | Though I didn't mind being by myself from time to time--in fact, I enjoyed it--I'd had a little too much of it lately. And being alone is a lot more fun if it's optional. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 363379d | It was my own grief. I could feel it fading away into something I simply accepted, because that's the way I am. I knew I'd feel better. It was living until then that was hard. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| fbcce0f | As to your being worthy, I don't think falling in love has much to do with the worth of the object of love. But I'd dispute your assessment. I think you're a fine woman, and I think you always try to be the best person you can be. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 47fa3e7 | I don't have to take a stand by telling other people they're wrong," I'd protested. "What business is it of mine?" "If you love them, it's your business," he'd said firmly. "If their misbehavior is intruding on the happiness and well-being of others, it's your business." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| d09afa1 | But you can't erase a thought; once you've had it, it's there to stay. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 45ccedb | The best sorts of leftover meals are those that are glorified picnics. Alongside the cold meats, you need a good purchased pate en croute--one made with veal or duck would be just the thing. Also put on the table some salad and bread. | Nigella Lawson | ||
| 0a1b1ce | when confidence is undermined or ruptured, it can be difficult to do the simplest things, or to take any enjoyment even in trying. | Nigella Lawson | ||
| 34863cc | At all times a heavy ceramic casserole would sit on a pale blue Aga, so should people drop in unexpectedly, I could wander out in my bare feet, welcome them warmly, give them dinner, then press my home-made elderberry wine on them. I would be like Nigella Lawson. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 0bc56d7 | Eating alone, for me, is most often a prompt to shop. This is where self-absorption and consumerism meet-- a rapt, satisfyingly convoluted pleasure."--Nigella Lawson" | Klancy Miller | ||
| 967dd8c | GORGONZOLA & CANNELLINI DIP WITH A TRICOLORE FLOURISH I LOVE THIS COMBINATION OF BLUE CHEESE AND WHITE BEANS, but I have to say its gorgeousness is due in no small part to the mascarpone and Marsala that add creaminess of texture and smoky depth of tone respectively. I like this dip to have real tang: I need to feel that burning, blue-cheese buzz. | Nigella Lawson | ||
| 3f31f3b | Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their number-one friend. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1fc7eb6 | he would not neglect what he considered his duty for the sake of being liked. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 1515d1d | I remembered my pep talk to Esperanza a few months before, and understood just how ridiculous it was. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you'll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold--with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 748b855 | His mother had let him carry two valises: one for books, one for clothes. The clothes were a waste, outgrown instantly. He should have filled both with books. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8720971 | It was strange to speak forthrightly, after living at Mrs. Bittle's those years: exiting the bathroom with downcast eyes, sitting at supper while old Mr. Judd piped up with his yellowed news extras. Now it seems we shared a kindred silence, restraining our smiles on hearing that Limburger has flown across the Atlantic. But maybe I contrive this, as lovers reconfigure the days before, with every glance leading ultimately to union. In any eve.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1c448e5 | I'd like to ask those who favor this position if they would be willing to go to Littleton and explain to some mothers what constitutes an acceptable risk. Really. Because in a society that embraces violence, this is what "our way of life" has come to mean. The question can't be why but only "Why yours and not mine?" We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy .. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 24fda93 | It is possible to establish zero tolerance for murder as a solution to anything | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a942fd6 | nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 38b1da2 | You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always the chance you'll want to use it later. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 0e97fa9 | I love it for what it tells me about life. I love fiction, strangely enough, for how true it is, If it can tell me something I didn't already know, or maybe suspected but never framed quite that way, or never before had sock me so divinely in the solar plexus, that was a story worth a read. | writing | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 501d71b | All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still. | writing reader | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 66c4138 | how ridiculous it was. There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you'll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold--with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. | Barbara Kingsolver |