It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.
Yes, my boy; yes, my girl. The tension between contraries is what makes us ourselves. We have not just one, but the other too, mixing and clashing and sparking inside us. Not just light, but dark. Not...
Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways.
She reminded him of September blackberries, which looked ripe but could just as easily be sour as sweet when you ate them.
Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft...
Of all the cities he had been to—Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City—San Francisco was by far the worst.
But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive.
Though grafted at the same time, they had grown up to be different sizes; it always surprised James that the trees could turn out as varied as his children.
California is where you get to start over.
James found the talk by the wagons tiring after a while. He liked to listen, and he had thoughts of what he'd like to say about the weather, or the corn crop, or the road being macadamized, or the ras...
Pieter would be pleased with the rest of the coins, the debt now settled. I would not have cost him anything. A maid came free.
What made him most attractive was that he was attracted to her. Another’s interest can be a powerful stimulant. She could feel his eyes on her as an almost physical pressure.
Marry. Fanny was having all the time what I experienced only the once with Colonel Birch in the orchard. I had my fame to comfort me, and the money it brought in, but that only went so far. I could no...
This is not your land, William Lobb said.Oh, it is, it is. I got the papers. I can show you, back at the camp.This is Indian land, if it's anyone's. William Lobb spoke as if he hadn't heard Billie Lap...
Making:
Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.
Married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unp...
Oh, I was lucky, you know, to get anyone. I was what they called an old bride of twenty-six. Of course I married him. Everyone needs to keep something private from their family.Like a shutter in a rai...
I did not sleep well that night. I was not used to having the power to affect someone’s life so and did not easily carry its weight, as a man might have done.
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