Stay here and do the packing and let the young one run all over California for you! Don't you always say the success of collecting is in the packing? You're the boss--take the most important role and...
Sólo los ladrones y los niños corren.
That’s how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be...
The second he was gone the women began chattering like chickens at the sight of a fox.
There is a difference between Catholic and Protestant attitudes to painting, he explained as he worked, but it is not necessarily as great as you may think. Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for...
In the cartoon of Sight. It
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...
Twenty-first-century attitudes towards time and our expectations of story are very different from the shape of Mary Anning’s life. She spent day after day, year after year, doing the same thing on the...
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...
We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme.
We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.
What do you believe, Aunt Elizabeth?''I believe. . . I am comfortable with reading the Bible figuratively rather than literally. For instance, I think the six days in Genesis are not literal days, but...
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.
What's funny about opposites be that wet and dry both has water, boy and girl be about people, Heaven and Hell be the places you go when you die. They all has something in common. So they an't complet...
While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was eating or the chilblains on her hands and feet. She...
Yalnızca hırsızlar ve çocuklar koşar.
Yes, Mary Anning, you are different from all the rocks on the beach.
Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.
You know I don’t listen to market gossip, she began,but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.
You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.
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