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“Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age. She’d now taken to informing people that she was four- and-a-half-and-three-quarters. She didn't seem to grasp the concept of almost-five.”
― Mademoiselle le Sleuth
― Mademoiselle le Sleuth
“I still love the person he is—loyal and kind—but we’re on different paths, and that is okay.”
― Perfect
― Perfect
“I want to forget this awful place. Yet, at the same time, I never want to forget the many lessons that enabled me to mature quickly from just a skinny kid with a scraggly mustache, into a young man working so hard to seem older than his few years, as he evolves into early manhood.”
― Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969
― Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969
“By giving our former enemy, the pagan funeral of his ancestors, we are also respecting these people with whom we shall come together over time and forge a new nation and people!”
― Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion
― Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion
“Just a whisper in the right ear, and voila—a fresh sense of outrage to stoke a fresh conflagration.”
― Lucifer's Triangle
― Lucifer's Triangle
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