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The roses in the garden below were in full bloom; undulating ruffles of scarlet, pink and creamy petals, and the surrounding borders frothed with fluttering peonies punctuated with sapphire lances of larkspur.
“When an old man dies, a library burns.”
― If It Bleeds
― If It Bleeds
“My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world, marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting. Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“If Russo was managing the local Pizza Hut,” writer R.D. Reynolds memorably observed, “you’d order a pizza and they’d deliver a newspaper.”
― Nitro: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW
― Nitro: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW
“He put them in that open file because no one knew where people came from when they were born and no one knew where people went when they died, and not all the Unitarian ministers and born-again Jesus-shouters and Popes and Scientologists in the world could convince Will otherwise.”
― Christine
― Christine
“Drew considered a fourth beer and decided against it. He had an idea that was the one with the hangover in it,”
― If It Bleeds
― If It Bleeds
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