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Book cover for A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #1)
You wouldn’t think to look at him, would you, that he went on crusade when he was young? He was with Godfrey de Bouillon at Antioch, when the Saracens surrendered it. And he took to the seas as a captain when the king of Jerusalem ruled all ...more
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Ruth Rendell
“Nobody phoned, nobody came and there weren’t any letters.” Parsons seemed proud of his empty life, as if it was evidence of respectability.”
Ruth Rendell, From Doon With Death

Beth Ann Fennelly
“maybe she was just so used to getting away with everything, maybe she couldn’t believe she’d ever have to pay, flashing her devil-may-care grin over her shoulder as she fishtailed on her Big Wheel, leaving me behind in a spray of gravel, me always running, running to catch up”
Beth Ann Fennelly, The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs

Penelope Lively
“They are disagreeing, vehemently and enjoyably, about the politics of Malawi, where Gordon has recently been. Gordon advises the ministers of such places on how to manage their economies. ‘Rubbish, Claudia,’ he says. ‘You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’ve never been to the damn place.’ ‘Since when,’ says Claudia, ‘did I depend on personal experience for an informed opinion?’ And they both laugh.”
Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

Orson Scott Card
“The only thing I ever truly made was Americans (Ben Franklin)”
Orson Scott Card, Seventh Son

Beth Ann Fennelly
“Even now, three years later, when she opens the drawer beside the stove for an oven mitt, she finds the oven mitts folded. This is because, three years earlier, during an intense game of Scattergories, when the category was Things You Fold and the letter was O, her husband had written oven mitts. “Nobody folds oven mitts,” she scoffed, and refused him his point, forcing him, ever since, to prove it.”
Beth Ann Fennelly, The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs

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