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"This book is a little too on the nose. I'll finish it, no doubt, but as Parry's most recent: a disappointment." — Oct 06, 2026 03:41PM
"This book is a little too on the nose. I'll finish it, no doubt, but as Parry's most recent: a disappointment." — Oct 06, 2026 03:41PM
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"I suppose getting nearly 3.5 hours into a book before getting insufferably impatient with it is not too bad." — Aug 29, 2026 01:55PM
"I suppose getting nearly 3.5 hours into a book before getting insufferably impatient with it is not too bad." — Aug 29, 2026 01:55PM
The telltale sign that you are at the wedding of a rich person is the napkins. At the not-rich person’s wedding, should a waiter spill water or wine or a mixed drink of well liquor onto the napkin-covered lap of a guest, the beverage would
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“Hellfire, Anney. Carr an't never gotten over anything. Girl remembers every wrong anybody ever done or thought of doing her. Bet you she recites them out loud each night before she goes to sleep, just to keep them straight in her mind." — Uncle Earle”
― Bastard Out of Carolina
― Bastard Out of Carolina
“It is an inarguable truth, you know," said Ana, "that most people are absolutely enthralled by dead girls.”
― A Trade of Blood
― A Trade of Blood
“Before the war, Bertie loved the poets, and Roger loved the histories, but Mouse and Lord Dewhurst split the Kingdom of the novel. The library did not have enough room to house everything, so the titles her uncle cared for least ended up scattered in guest bedrooms and window nooks to save space on the shelves for "better" books.”
― Thistlemarsh
― Thistlemarsh
“now I guess we'll just have to drink to being alive, like boring people”
― The City in the Middle of the Night
― The City in the Middle of the Night
“She thought about gifts, and Samuel Pollard, and how much she hated him giving her things she hadn't asked for—tortoise-shell combs, lengths of fancy ribbon—under the guise of being neighbourly when they were clearly meant for courting. She thought about how the gift forced a bond on her that was awkward and difficult to refuse, and how payment could dispel that, could break the bond. There was a grammar, too, to gifts.”
― The River Has Roots
― The River Has Roots
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