“The more I reach for her soul, the more I connect with mine.”
― Saint Richard Parker
― Saint Richard Parker
“She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it? Why did she not feel the chill of each yearly encounter with such a cold relation? She had Jeremy Taylor's thought that some time in the future those who had known her would say, 'It is the -th, the day that poor Tess Durbeyfield died'; and there would be nothing singular to their minds in the statement. Of that day, doomed to be her terminus in time through all the ages, she did not know the place in month, week, season, or year.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“I’ll tell the Chief and he’ll squash you like the little flea-ridden castrated cock you are.”
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
― The Cases Nobody Wanted
“The artillery fire which helped in holding off the enemy advance against the Australian positions appeared to be getting always closer. A radio operator called Vic Grice somehow replaced the antenna on Buick’s radio. That had been shot off, thus rendering the radio in-operational.”
― A Gracious Enemy
― A Gracious Enemy
“Sir, I think you need to read this,’ he said, nervously handing over the mainframe’s dissertation of its own wellbeing.”
― Our Blue Orange
― Our Blue Orange
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