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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 405c156 | WE COMMIT ALL SORTS OF INJUSTICES AT EVERY STEP WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST EVIL INTENTION. EVERY MINUTE WE ARE THE CAUSE OF SOMEONE'S UNHAPPINESS | Ian Rankin | ||
| 9a5f863 | Shi-vawn. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 11a6759 | her face had decided long ago that make-up wasn't going to cure anything. Her | Ian Rankin | ||
| bffc334 | salmon was sliced thick, and had been sprinkled with lemon juice and pepper. He took a small nip of whisky when the hip-flask came round, then drank two mugs of strong tea. With all the games he felt were going on, he wanted to clear his head. He wasn't sure if he was a player, a counter, or the die. He'd been shown one thing, though - the game was dangerous, at stake his professional career, which was everything he lived for. Practically e.. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 09ab1e4 | Acknowledgements Reading Group Notes Timeline About the Author By Ian Rankin Copyright Serendipity. According to the dictionary, it means the ability to make 'happy chance finds'. Serendip was the old name for Ceylon. Horace Walpole is credited with coining the term, after the fairy tale 'The Three Princes of Serendip', whose titular heroes were always stumbling across things they weren't looking for. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 659155c | went to take a look at it. A plaque | Ian Rankin | ||
| 556d2e1 | Poor girl. She would change. The idealism would vanish once she saw how hypocritical the whole game was, and what luxuries lay outside university. When she left, she'd want it all: the executive job in London, the flat, car, salary, wine-bar. She would chuck it all in for a slice of pie. | truth-of-life | Ian Rankin | |
| d7e30a9 | Nothing in the room was cheap, but none of it was exactly desirable either. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 5ed2e47 | Sky glowing dull pink. Simmer dim, as the Shetlanders called | Ian Rankin | ||
| c79958c | Also, he was more discriminating now than he had been then, back in the old days when he would read a book to its bitter end whether he liked it or not. These days, a book he disliked was unlikely to last ten pages of his concentration. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 41dafd8 | Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet. | Ian Rankin | ||
| dcdf473 | was still a fine, persistent drizzle. There was a word in Scots for it--"smirr." | Ian Rankin | ||
| 038291b | I went to the Oxford Bar first off, but they said they hardly see you these days. I'm at the age where nothing should surprise me, but | Ian Rankin | ||
| 4ff5625 | As usual, Vanderhyde's memory was sharp enough when it suited him. 'That's true. All the same, you were there.' 'Yes, I was. But I left several hours before the fire started. Not guilty, your honour.' 'Why were you there in the first place?' 'To meet a friend for a drink.' 'A seedy place for a drink.' 'Was it? You'll have to remember, Inspector, I couldn't see anything. It certainly didn't smell or feel particularly disreputable.' 'Point ta.. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 450dd33 | silly buggers, | Ian Rankin | ||
| 745257b | Rebus nodded his understanding. The Murder Room was quiet when he reached it. Roy Frazer was reading a paper. "Finished with this?" Rebus asked, picking up another. Frazer nodded. "Chicken phal," Rebus explained, rubbing his stomach. "Hold all my calls and let everyone know the shunkie's off-limits." Frazer nodded and smiled. Saturday morning on the bog with the paper: everyone had done it at one time." | Ian Rankin | ||
| 755f462 | On nakhodilsia nastol'ko nizhe etikh liudei na sotsial'noi lestnitse, chto somnevalsia, vidiat li oni ego voobshche. S kazhdym shagom podnimaias' vse vyshe, oni spilivali za soboi stupen'ki. | Ian Rankin | ||
| ef7d28c | parked and placed the POLICE sign on the dashboard. | Ian Rankin | ||
| d440f5e | view, returning from the corner shop. He hadn't shaved or combed his hair. His shirt wasn't tucked in. He carried | Ian Rankin | ||
| 1a61927 | Ann Street was reckoned by many to be the most beautiful terrace in the city. Tucked away between Queensferry Road and Stockbridge, its two elegant facing rows of Georgian homes were separated by a narrow roadway constructed of traditional setts. The front gardens were immaculate, the black metal railings glossy, the lamp posts harking back to a more elegant age. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 0f8810f | guarded by a young PC reading a book. With a guilty jump he stuffed the Ian Rankin under his seat. | Stuart MacBride | ||
| 489c7fc | below | Ian Rankin | ||
| b36fa4a | in Scotland. There was no need: the Scots had bigotry instead. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 8fcd25a | with | Ian Rankin | ||
| ee3ed6d | Oils in general, which produce a beneficial effect on the nervous system, include Chamomile, Clary Sage, Juniper, Lavender, Marjoram, Melissa and Rosemary. Bergamot, Chamomile, Lavender and Marjoram have analgesic, antispasmodic and sedative properties, helping to relieve pain, promote a calming effect, and reduce over-activity of the nervous system. Eucalyptus, Peppermint and Rosemary are both analgesic and antispasmodic, helping to reliev.. | Beth A. Jones | ||
| 04254e0 | Byrd was born out of his time and into the wrong political party. | Benjamin Muse | ||
| 7c87d89 | doctors advised intensive talk therapy, even electroshock treatment. Some gay men were castrated against their will, a procedure that removed their testicles and deadened the sex drive. Others were lobotomized, a medical practice that destroyed the connections between the frontal lobes and the thalamus of the brain, deadening just about all aspects of behavior. | Ann Bausum | ||
| 7a83d78 | Few bars in New York, even gay bars, permitted same-sex dancing. | Ann Bausum | ||
| 04bf973 | Men danced with men, often for the first time in their lives. | Ann Bausum | ||
| 2e9a0ea | Masquerading in the attire of the opposite sex was a criminal offense, except on Halloween. | Ann Bausum | ||
| d28e40f | When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one's bedroom, in more than half of the country's states plus the nation's capital. | stonewall | Ann Bausum | |
| 61ac44b | We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women. | gay stonewall women | Ann Bausum | |
| 4277271 | And then there were the lesbians. | Ann Bausum | ||
| 0a4b6c2 | The joys, the sorrows soon will end. The tomb confines all mortals! Do not cry or place flowers at my grave. Do not place a cross with my name to cover these bones! Ah, the misguided desire to smile; God pardon and accept me, all is finished. | John Nicholl | ||
| c649ae1 | Grav laughed, causing his overhanging beer gut to wobble like a birthday jelly. 'Yeah, I'm starting ballet classes next week. My saggy arse will look good in the tights.' 'Now, | John Nicholl | ||
| a94c038 | What is this, the Spanish Inquisition or something?" [Drew Nichols] "Yeah, and you didn't expect it, did you? [John Bell]" | Shawn Goodwin | ||
| a710a1f | Another woman has been arrested and thrown in jail because she refused to get up out of her seat on the bus for a white person to sit down. It is the second time since the Claudette Colvin case that a Negro woman has been arrested for the same thing. This has to be stopped. Negroes have rights too, for if Negroes did not ride the buses, they could not operate. Three-fourths of the riders are Negro, yet we are arrested, or have to stand over.. | John Nichols | ||
| e1977da | We are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like w.. | John Nichols | ||
| 4bc9e40 | People simply do not understand numbers, risk, or probability, and few things can make discussion between experts and laypeople more frustrating than this "innumeracy," as the mathematician John Allen Paulos memorably called it. For people who believe flying is dangerous, there will never be enough safe landings to outweigh the fear of the one crash. "Confronted with these large numbers and with the correspondingly small probabilities assoc.. | Thomas M. Nichols | ||
| a8a289e | Only when Clark Nichols was not in the shop did the boys argue religion. Or at night up in the attic where they bunked the boys would argue. Willy deemed himself a loyal churchman of the Church of England. John War was a Dissenter. In Piddington John Warr had joined a group of Dissenters who had been meeting since 1767. They now had a meeting house in Hackleton. Large indeed at about 200, the group was made up of field workers, domestic ser.. | Sam Wellman | ||
| 43c5038 | How wrongly Willy had judged Mister Nichols. Among his numerous prayers now he prayed for Clarke Nichols. And when Mister Nichols announced he was going to marry Frances Howes in October of 1777 Willy prayed for her too. He had a second chance. He was going to change his life. The counterfeit shilling had proven once and for all he was a sinner. And he wanted to change like John Warr had changed, for his fellow apprentice had surely become .. | Sam Wellman | ||
| 70a09e8 | Willy began to avidly read the Bible and books from Nichols' small library. Books by Jeremy Taylor taught him how a person tries to attain greater holiness in his life. Apparently this quest for personal holiness was the thrust behind John Wesley's Methodism too. For the first time Willy began to think maybe a Christian needed to do more than attend church. | Sam Wellman | ||
| 5b08398 | There is however, one reason why the arts so rarely accept a mission that IS within the power of the Church to alter. In the past, the densest or richest location of baptised art has been the Liturgy. The sacred use of the arts in the liturgical setting has provided inspiration for artists engaged in producing artworks for contexts outside the Liturgy, for consumption beyond the limits of the visible Church. In the modern West, the Muses ha.. | liturgy theology-of-art | Aidan Nichols O.P. | |
| ce8d0e5 | There were still exciting groups on the horizon: Ben Pollack, Isham Jones, Red Nichols, and Ted "Is Ev-rybody Happy?" Lewis provided an early training ground for many of the stars of the swing era, which was just around the corner. Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Jimmie Lunceford, and Chick Webb had started or were soon to start bands in the mid- to late 1920s, and Duke Ellington was already one of the most respecte.. | John Dunning |