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The Everglades is wet land, bordered on its south by the aquamarine shallows of Florida Bay, on its east by the cool, deep-cobalt Atlantic, on its west by the placid green Gulf of Mexico, and on the north by the “dinner and show” motif of
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The Everglades is wet land, bordered on its south by the aquamarine shallows of Florida Bay, on its east by the cool, deep-cobalt Atlantic, on its west by the placid green Gulf of Mexico, and on the north by the “dinner and show” motif of central Florida’s performing killer whales and short, fabulous, gay men dressed as the world’s most famous mouse.
“No, this was the career I wanted; a writer could be employed for as long as she could hold a pencil; for as long as her mind still held out. But an actress—even an actress like Mary—had a fleeting shelf life.”
― The Girls in the Picture
― The Girls in the Picture
“All is in divine order.”
― Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead
― Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town That Talks to the Dead
“For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?)”
― Avenue of Mysteries
― Avenue of Mysteries
“She shook off her sense of amazement, and tried to pretend she was watching a period play. There was a lot of flirting going on, plenty of fluttering of ivory fans and eyelashes. It was weird to think that in another two hundred years people would flirt by pole dancing, twerking, and sexting. The”
― A Murder in Time
― A Murder in Time
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