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“You wouldn't want to be absolutely unique, would you. like a three-headed calf or something ?"
"Of course not." I would, she thought violently. I want to be absolutely unique.
"I'm sorry if I offended you," he said with a trace of a smile. "It's just that I knew a three-headed calf once. and all it ever wanted to be was ordinary.”
― Vanish in an Instant
"Of course not." I would, she thought violently. I want to be absolutely unique.
"I'm sorry if I offended you," he said with a trace of a smile. "It's just that I knew a three-headed calf once. and all it ever wanted to be was ordinary.”
― Vanish in an Instant
“And kids, they're very instinctual, they're very primitive, in a lot of ways. And they can smell difference on you.”
― Penance
― Penance
“I don't want you to fall behind."
"I won't," she declared intensely, promising herself that she would repay his confidence in her by having a brilliant career. A great writer, an actress, an ambassador's gifted wife. Perhaps he would like it best if she were to study for the bar. But no, that was out of the question; women lawyers wore flat-heeled shoes.”
― The Company She Keeps
"I won't," she declared intensely, promising herself that she would repay his confidence in her by having a brilliant career. A great writer, an actress, an ambassador's gifted wife. Perhaps he would like it best if she were to study for the bar. But no, that was out of the question; women lawyers wore flat-heeled shoes.”
― The Company She Keeps
“I was born in the city of Bombay on August 15th 1947. No, that will not do. The time is important. It was at the stroke of midnight, the precise instant of India's arrival at independence. I, Saleem Sinai, later variously called Snotface, Baldy and Too Pleased With My Own Brilliance, had my destiny tied to my country's. Now my time is running out, and I have so many stories - too many you may think - to tell, to save myself from crumbling into dust. But I am the Arabian Knights and you must put up with it.
The story starts in 1915. My grandfather, Aadam Aziz, fell on a tussock while praying and lost his faith. Blood fell from his not inconsiderable nose and solidified into rubies and diamonds, and I could already feel the Booker Prize in my hands.”
― Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century
The story starts in 1915. My grandfather, Aadam Aziz, fell on a tussock while praying and lost his faith. Blood fell from his not inconsiderable nose and solidified into rubies and diamonds, and I could already feel the Booker Prize in my hands.”
― Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century
“But if his speed was a gift of God, his control was the curse of Satan, for Steve Dalkowsky was wilder than a northeast gale. His fastball would explode in the stands - a hundred feet off target - and knock batters out of the on-deck circle. Batboys cowered in the dugout. He gave up more bases on balls in a single season than anyone in the history of the California League, and once in Stockton threw six wild pitches in a row. In Aberdeen one night he struck out seventeen and walked sixteen.
"Hey, Dalkowsky, you pitchin' tonight?" a fan yelled after three warm-up pitches missed the screen behind home plate and splintered box seats. Dalkowsky mumbled yes and the fan shouted back, "Then I'm getting the hell out of here, and I'm taking my kids with me.”
― Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues
"Hey, Dalkowsky, you pitchin' tonight?" a fan yelled after three warm-up pitches missed the screen behind home plate and splintered box seats. Dalkowsky mumbled yes and the fan shouted back, "Then I'm getting the hell out of here, and I'm taking my kids with me.”
― Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues
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