“What in the name of Llar was that all about?’ Colin asked, his face still drained of colour.
‘I have no bloody idea,’ William said his voice quivering.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
‘I have no bloody idea,’ William said his voice quivering.”
― The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
“The Poems of Robert W. Service.”
― Every Living Thing
― Every Living Thing
“I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God's world hideous. Then wild and wicked thoughts come into my heart. I don't want to be good and respectable. (I never can be sensible, I'm told; so that don't matter.) I want to put on lavender-colored tights, with red velvet breeches and a green doublet slashed with yellow; to have a light-blue silk cloak on my shoulder, and a black eagle's plume waving from my hat, and a big sword, and a falcon, and a lance, and a prancing horse, so that I might go about and gladden the eyes of the people. Why should we all try to look like ants crawling over a dust-heap? Why shouldn't we dress a little gayly? I am sure if we did we should be happier. True, it is a little thing, but we are a little race, and what is the use of our pretending otherwise and spoiling fun? Let philosophers get themselves up like old crows if they like. But let me be a butterfly.”
― Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
― Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
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“А найголовніше — у всіх будинках, повз які ми проїжджали, світилося вікна, тож я знову могла в них зазирати, чого мені страшенно бракувало під час війни. Тоді ж бо в мене було таке відчуття, ніби всі ми перетворилися на кротів, які поховалися у своїх темних тунелях.”
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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