“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“I am the gatekeeper of my own destiny and I will have my glory days in the hot sun”
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“He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.”
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
― The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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