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“All over the city lights were coming on in the purple-blue dusk. The street lights looked delicate and frail, as though they might suddenly float away from their lampposts like balloons. Long twirling ribbons of light, red, green, violet, were festooned about the doorways of drugstores and restaurants--and the famous electric signs of Broadway had come to life with glittering fish, dancing figures, and leaping fountains, all flashing like fire. Everything was beautiful. Up in the deepening sky above the city the first stars appeared white and rare as diamonds.”
― The Saturdays
― The Saturdays
“When one has nothing left to one but memories, one guards and dusts them with especial care. ”
― The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
― The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
“But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.”
― The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
― The Complete Saki: 144 Collected Novels and Short Stories
“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
― Howards End
― Howards End
“But I could never have done it,' he objected, 'without everyone else's help.'
'That may be true,' said Reason gravely, 'but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a question of what you will do.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
'That may be true,' said Reason gravely, 'but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a question of what you will do.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
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