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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” The only quote I could dredge up by the French priest-philosopher.”
― Speaking in Bones
― Speaking in Bones
“We head into the bar and order drinks. I’m looking around to see if I recognize any members of Congress. They’re sort of my heroic role models, in that they do even less work than I do.”
― Leader of the Pack
― Leader of the Pack
“an old French recording of Ida Presti, possibly the greatest guitarist who ever lived,”
― Breakdown
― Breakdown
“Members of one family of the fruit fly are called peacocks because they strut on the fruit.”
― Three in Death
― Three in Death
“Faith knew the Somerset Club in Boston, though she had never been inside the massive stone mansion at 42 Beacon Street that suggested a fortress more than the convivial social club, founded in 1851 or even earlier according to some accounts. Asking about membership was a guarantee of exclusion. It was the snootiest and perhaps the wealthiest of Boston’s formerly all-male social clubs. The story most often told about the Somerset was an accurate one: when a fire broke out in the 1940s, the firemen were made to use the servants’ entrance.”
― The Body in the Casket
― The Body in the Casket
Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mary’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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