Laurine Rax

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― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“He was entrancing, with that epicene beauty which in extreme youth sings aloud for love and withers at the first cold wind.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“the clerk in the ministry to correct this, he pulled out his original typescript. “See for yourself, madam. Quod erat demonstrandum it is Missing,” he said, as if he’d proved Pythagoras’s theorem, the sun’s central position in the solar system, the roundness of the”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone