“And Tarquin,’ Semilla said quietly. ‘He has been in league with them all along?’
‘Yes, I am afraid so,’ Rupert confirmed.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
‘Yes, I am afraid so,’ Rupert confirmed.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
“She felt love, like the love that she had always known existed behind every fallen autumn leaf, behind the gurgling of springs, and behind the kisses of her parents.”
― The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel
― The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel
“Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!”
― Treasure Island
― Treasure Island
“Yet by some stroke of almost providential good fortune, he became wanted.”
― Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
― Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
“Miracles do not happen:"—'t is plain sense, If you italicize the present tense; But in those days, as rare old Chaucer tells, All Britain was fulfilled of miracles. So, as I said, the great doors opened wide. In rushed a blast of winter from outside, And with it, galloping on the empty air, A great green giant on a great green mare”
― King Arthur Collection
― King Arthur Collection
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