I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roari...
Undoes us.
Ghosts are not the dead, come back from the grave to torment the living; ghosts are already here. They live inside us, keening in the ashes of our sorrows, mired in the thick, clutching mud of our reg...
A veces todavía veo a aquella chiquilla en mi imaginación. Corre y ríe con sus gastados calzones y su levita prestada. Da vueltas por el Patio de Mármol, emocionada por su buena fortuna.Veo a esa chiq...
Nevermore is more than an illusion child. It is very real.Page 267
But what if you don't like your own story. What then?
Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. p. 368
Y si es así, ¿qué pretendía con los fuegos artificiales? Aparte de fastidiar a Napoleón Bonaparte, lo que no parece muy inteligente. El tipo tenía mal genio, y un ejército.
There was a knock at the door. It was Lumiere. The Beast bade him enter.Is there anything else you require tonight before retiring, master?I - I thought we might go skating tomorrow.Lumiere's eyebrows...
Oh, Astrid... You can't sing. - Becca
This word, the people in it- my mother, Tantine- they sort us. Put us in crates. are an egg. are a potato. are a cabbage. They tell us who we are. What we will do. What we will be.Because they're a...
My gowns are burned, my satin shoes and silk corsets destroyed. Parties and balls are a thing of the past. Suitors no longer come to my door. The world calls me ugly and stays away.
I could bear it [the shame] because I knew the truth, child, I say. There was one of us in that marriage who was old, fat, and smelly, and it wasn't me.The King was cruel to speak thus, Alice says, bu...
<...> when a Chinese wished you ill, he would tell you, May you live in interesting times.
Uh-oh,' Lafitte said ominously. 'Swamp queen just go angry.
Love is so strong, so ferocious, that she frightens even me. , Belle. A woman who strolls through battlefields and sick houses. Who takes tea with executioners.
Headstrong is just a word, Katie—a word others call you when you don’t do what they
For the first time in her life, she didn't look like royalty. She looked fierce, edgy, and troublesome. A merl not to be messed with.And she liked it.
Decido que lo único que significa es que Virgil tiene mi iPod. Porque no hay nada más peligroso que la esperanza.
I have a surprise for you, the Beast had said, in his usual brusque tone.Belle had just come in from feeding her horse, Philippe, and was standing by the kitchen's back door, shaking snow from her clo...