When I met my husband, we turned in toward each other and our worlds got smaller.
“You’re an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance,”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“There would be a day—there must be a day—when he would come back to Gramarye with a new Round Table which had no corners, just as the world had none—a table without boundaries between the nations who would sit to feast there. The hope of making it would lie in culture. If people could be persuaded to read and write, not just to eat and make love, there was still a chance that they might come to reason. BUT”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
“Back at the scene of the rollover they had brought in the dogs, who got one snootful of all the guts and gore scattered all over the place and, after a whispered conference, expressed their regrets and respectfully declined to participate.”
― The Homecoming
― The Homecoming
“Everything was of interest to him,” marveled the French ambassador, Jean Jules Jusserand, “people of today, people of yesterday, animals, minerals, stones, stars, the past, the future.”
― The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
― The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
“Are you using 'he' generically, or because it seems probable that a man did this?"
Hunt shrugs, indifferent to pronouns. Men can afford to be.”
― Wilde Lake
Hunt shrugs, indifferent to pronouns. Men can afford to be.”
― Wilde Lake
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