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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 56d9996 | go in | Lawrence Sanders | ||
| 5e5c486 | and I | Lawrence Sanders | ||
| 699356f | The one possibility that Sanders tended to discount entirely was a landing at Gallipoli's southern tip, simply because the most basic rules of military logic--even mere common sense--argued against it. | Scott Anderson | ||
| c0f1b49 | I know a good chop house near Macy's. Do you like mutton chops?" "Hate them." "Idiot. That heavy, gamy taste ... nothing like it." "Can I get a broiled kidney?" "Of course." "Then let's have lunch at your chop house." | Lawrence Sanders | ||
| 79d71a4 | You're referring to the guests? | Lawrence Sanders | ||
| 79b684f | boys | Lawrence Sanders | ||
| d0ca785 | tapioca | Lawrence Sanders | ||
| 832fa80 | His explanation for the "signs" | Bill Engvall | ||
| 86bf1d5 | Engvall is in the park flying a kite with his son. | Bill Engvall | ||
| a5cf022 | New people arrive and they could be Jewish or Irish or Polish or even coloured. Our old customers are moving out to Long Island and we can't follow them, so we need new customers every week. We treat everyone the same. We welcome every single person who comes into this store | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 8b4c4a3 | New people arrive and tehy cold be Jewish or Irish or Polish or even coloured. Our old customers are moving out to Long Island and we can't follow them, so we need new customers every week. We treat everyone the same. We welcome every single person who comes into this store. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 8b05c0a | I shall tell him that being partly invisible is merely a small aspect of my charm. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 1154480 | Rose appeared to be in a sort of dream. As Eilis watched her, it struck her that she had never seen Rose look so beautiful. And then it occurred to her that she was already feeling that she would need to remember this room, her sister, this scene, as though from a distance. In the silence that had lingered, she realized, it had somehow been tacitly arranged that Eilis would go to America. Father Flood, she believed, had been invited to the .. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 6958b4c | Could we move around the world staying in nice hotels, just we three, and writing letters home when some very witty remark is made by one of us?" Alice asked. "Could we do this forever?" | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 891eac8 | She would try to put those two days behind her. No matter what she dreamed about, no matter how bad she felt, she had no choice, she knew, but to put it all swiftly out of her mind. She would have to get on with her work if it was during the day and go back to sleep if it was during the night. It would be like covering a table with a tablecloth, or closing curtains on a window; and maybe the need would lessen as time went on, as Jack had hi.. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| c30e3f1 | You must live with what you did,' Leander said. 'What you did is all you have. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 207c13e | You have asked two questions, and I will answer them separately," Gray said. "Trollope writes with precision and feeling about love and marriage. Yes, I can assure you of that. Now, the second question is rather different. Trollope, I believe, would take the view that it is the function of the preacher and the theologian, the philosopher and perhaps the poet, but emphatically not that of the novelist, to deal with what you call 'the great m.. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| aaccc2d | He stopped going to his own bed, waiting instead until Leander was ready for bed and then going to the room with him, the dog once more in his wake. He began to look forward to the night, to what happened between them in these hours, and to the morning when they woke. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 796922a | It would make her less nervous in one way, she thought, but maybe more so in another, because she knew that people would look at her and might have a view on her that was wrong if she were dressed up like this every day | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 2dc7309 | Henry wondered, too, what life would have had for her and how her exquisite faculty of challenge could have dealt with a world which would inevitably attempt to confine her. His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without her was no more than a penalty he paid for the privilege of having been young with her. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| cade059 | Andersen was perhaps too young to know how memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it is well past and lost and, even then, how much, under the weight of pure determination, can be forgotten and left aside only to return in the night as piercing pain. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| a7d17d3 | Maybe, she thought, they had never known her, any of them, because if they had, then they would have had to realize what this would be like for her. She | Colm Tóibín | ||
| f5796ef | It was like the arrival of night when you knew that you would never see anything in daylight again. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| be8b6a2 | Izslushvaneto iziskva poveche usiliia ot govoreneto. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 5a0a351 | He arranged the ceremony for two o'clock in the afternoon a week before she was to leave. The exam had gone well and she was almost certain that she would qualify. Because other couples to be married came with family and friends, their ceremony seemed brisk and over quickly and caused much curiosity among those waiting because they had come alone. On their journey to Coney Island on the train that afternoon Tony raised the question for the .. | wedding-ring | Colm Tóibín | |
| 64458a3 | From now on the architects would take over as the high preists of this bourgeois city. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| d4c25ef | On the phone with his wife when the plane he was on stopped after hitting a deer. | Bill Engvall | ||
| 96d41dd | she would never have an ordinary day again in this ordinary place, that the rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| aeafe45 | Even when she woke in the night and thought about it, she did not allow herself to conclude that she did not want to go. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 1c9b686 | she still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to lose this world for ever, that she would never have an ordinary day again in this ordinary place, that the rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 623d179 | As they looked at one another, Nora felt Fiona was hostile, and forced herself to remember how upset she must be, and how lonely she might be too. She smiled as she said that they would have to go and in return Fiona smiled at her and at the boys. As soon as Nora walked away, however, she felt helpless and regretted not having said something kind or special or consoling to Fiona before they left her; maybe even something as simple as asking.. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 2dbca66 | S Nuriia chakakha s nai-goliamo net'rpenie onezi niakolko sedmitsi prez avgust, kogato roditelite im zanimavakha s priiateli na p'teshestvie s iakhta, a momichetata ostavakha sami s baba si i gostite, koito idvakha i si otivakha. K'shchata t'neshe v sianka i prokhlada, izl'chvashe asketichnost. Pod balkona otzad be slozhena d'lga masa, koiato se redeshe prilezhno tri p'ti dnevno. Gradinata be op'rlena ot sl'ntseto i morskiia briz. Blizkiiat.. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 1fb6d86 | she had made a decision for herself, the idea that she had asked no one's advice. It was the first time since she had sold the house in Cush that such a chance had come so easily, and she was glad she had taken it. Perhaps it was not wise; perhaps it made more sense to be grateful to the Gibneys. But it pleased her now to be grateful to no one. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| e6b11f0 | May Lacey, wisps of thin grey hair appearing from under her hat, her scarf still around her neck, sat opposite Nora in the back room and began to talk. After a while, the boys went upstairs; Conor, when Nora called him, was too shy to come down and say good night, but soon Donal came and sat in the room with them, carefully studying May Lacey, saying nothing. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| d4d1de6 | this was a piece of gross presumption on Mrs. Kehoe's part but also that the decision to give her, the most recently arrived, the best room in the house not only would cause bitterness and difficulty between herself and Patty, Diana, Miss McAdam and Sheila Heffernan but would come to mean, in time, that Mrs. Kehoe herself would feel free to call in the favour she had done her. She | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 60c8946 | And then it occurred to her that she was already feeling that she would need to remember this room, her sister, this scene, as though from a distance. In the silence that had lingered, she realized, it had somehow been tacitly arranged that Eilis would go to America. Father Flood, she believed, had been invited to the house because Rose knew that he could arrange it. Her | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 9049bcd | Once more she noted the hectoring tone, as though she were a child, unable to make proper decisions. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 4882aeb | Greta Wickham. He used to say if only Nora and Greta were here now, we wouldn't be in this mess, even when there was no mess at all." "Oh, he talked very warmly about you," Peggy interjected, "and William Junior and Thomas had nothing but good words to say about Maurice Webster when he was teaching them. I remember one day Thomas had a temperature and we all wanted him to stay in bed and he wouldn't, oh no he wouldn't, because he had a doub.. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| e137b01 | more she thought about it the more she came | Colm Tóibín | ||
| dc168f8 | woman who had not told him or anybody | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 286fab7 | That was not even ten years ago, it might have been six or seven years ago, and if anyone had told her that she would be standing here now listening to this song and all the things that had happened between then and now, she would not have believed them. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 3b45243 | though | Colm Tóibín | ||
| f52601e | In future, she hoped, fewer people would call. In future, once the boys went to bed, she might have the house to herself more often. She would learn how to spend these hours. In the peace of these winter evenings, she would work out how she was going to live. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 833e554 | It occurred to her that he had thought more closely about her over the previous few years than she had about him. She wondered if that could be true. She knew that how she felt affected him, and now, for the first time, how he felt seemed more urgent, more worthy of attention than any of her feelings. All she could do was to let him know and make him believe that she would do everything she promised to do. | Colm Tóibín |