Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart, I said cheerily, seizing the opening. The more you eat, the more you fart. The more you fart, the better you feel—so let’s have beans for every meal!
Because, Sassenach, he said, very dryly indeed, when ye’re a man, a good bit of what ye have to do is to draw up lines and fight other folk who come over them. Your enemies, your tenants, your childre...
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop. The line from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland drifted through my mind, and I smiled. Good advice, I supposed – but only if you ha...
Being in a state of grace is all very well, but I imagine even Joan of Arc had qualms when they lit the first brand.
Betelgeuse. Sirius. Orion. Antares. The sky is very large, and you are very small. Let the words washthrough him, the voice and its memories pass over him, shivering his skin like the touch of a ghost...
Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as...
Boston is by all Accounts a perfect Hellhole of republican Sentiment,
But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul, he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. And, Sassenach, he whispered, your face is my heart.
But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul,
But here, he said, so softly I could barely hear him, here in the dark, with you … I have no name.
But how shall I tell you all these things, he said, the line of his mouth twisting. And then say to you -- it is only you I have ever loved? How should you believe me? The question hung in the air bet...
But if he knew Grey so intimately as to make what I had witnessed plausible in the name of friendship alone, then why had he not told me of him before? Why go to such lengths to see the man, as soon a...
But it was something to do with the paintings …
But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing.
But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face; It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists; It is in his walk, the carraige of his nex...
But the future reaches out to us, as does the past, and all times are the present.
But the years between now and then had been hard ones—and compassion was a soft emotion, easily eroded by circumstance.
By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.
Can I help you? She was middle height and very pretty. He had an overall impression of fine bones and white linen, topped with a wealth of curly brown hair in a sort of half-tamed chignon. And in the...
Captain Leonard introduced me briefly to Mr. Overholt, the
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