If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was.
It’s just, Bobbi whispered, not many women your age— Oh. I get it. It’s because I’m an old woman. Etta had raised her voice at this so that the comment sailed up and down the table, earning Bobbi Nort...
It was the sort of room that made you want to stand around in it and read for the rest of your life
It was either Kenya or staying with my nincompoop grandchildren. Ha! Leopards I’d sooner. Melrose waited for her to complete the sentence, but she was done with it.
He felt the loss of something irreplacable, as if a thief had come out of the night, velvet-gloved and softly shod, and taken whatever it was away without Jury’s ever having known, and slipped through...
Fear wearing black.' Definition of cool. Maybe it's also the definition of courage. Would she be courageous?.
Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages.( E...
Before you hate something you should try to understand it.
Before Ernest could start walking back the cat, Melrose put in, But isn’t it rather we who have come here, Mrs. Attaboy? At her uncomprehending look, he plowed on. It is their country. What? Africa? I...
As he followed Wood, Jury thought: one disappearance, two auto accident victims, one in a mental institution, one drowned. One murdered. Rackmoor, for all its bracing sea air, didn’t seem the healthie...
And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a frie...
And how did he ever think he’d get away with murdering me? Her tone implied she must surely belong to that rare breed of mortals who must go unmurdered.
An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
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