Sure, stories can be like a fire on a cold night. But they can burn too. There ain't nothin' can cut deeper or sting with more poison than words can.
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Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us . . . in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best frien...
Mrs. Dower was gray. Her clothes, her hair, and the cloud above her head were all a shade of dark gray. With every breath she seemed to expel an invisible vapot of gloom.
In the distance, she heard the whistle of the afternoon train. Nora never tired of its long, heartrending note. What other sound could convey both the romance of returning home and the ache of leave-t...
Eric Ripert’s 32 Yolks, Joanne Harris’s Chocolat, Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, Richard Morais’s The Hundred-Foot Journey, Muriel Barbery’s Gourmet Rhapsody, and Ba...
But when it looked as those the clam-kicker wouldn’t cooperate,
As she inched forward through the congestion on Interstate 40, a highway that had been under construction for the past ten years, her mind wandered back to the photographs Detective McDowell had email...
There could be a trail of dead bodies from here to Arkansas.
To our congregation, Savannah whispered leadenly as Bryant
It’s always that way when you’re looking at books. An hour goes by in a minute: you don’t know where the hell the time went.
In the end, she pulled a DVD from the cabinet below her television and finally settled onto the sofa to watch the 1940 classic, Rebecca. Olivia knew every word of the film by heart but never grew tire...
How to make spiced rum. Place rum, allspice, cloves, cardamom, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel, and one vanilla bean—split lengthwise—in a jar and store in a dark place for 2 days. Strain ru...
Draiocht.It's the Gaelic word for magic That is what you are, Ella Mae. You are Other. You are magical.
Threw me off guard. The chief’s eyes crinkled
The list was a mixture of hardship and hope. Pain and renewal. It would serve as a recurring reminder that, though the past colors our present, it doesn’t have to dictate the future.
I also reread my Nancy Drew collection every few years.
It’s always that way when you’re looking at books. An hour goes by in a minute: you don’t know where the hell the time went. —John Dunning
Einstein also said that ‘Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.’ He