Every now and then a snake crosses the road in front of me, slithering and wriggling like a possessed shoelace. As
“whatever a body expects their life to be, that’s what they’ll make of it in the end.”
― One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
― One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
“The great American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.”
― The Measure
― The Measure
“The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”
― A Rule Against Murder
― A Rule Against Murder
“We like to think we learned lessons from those wars and yet history continues to repeat itself, year after year.”
― The Storyteller of Casablanca
― The Storyteller of Casablanca
“He closed the door gently behind him, as if it had feelings,”
― Miss Benson's Beetle
― Miss Benson's Beetle
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