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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.
“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
“In suffering we find our truest selves.”
― The Miniaturist
― The Miniaturist
“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
“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
“You could eat the air in the place, so thick with bread and warmth that it stang our cheeks.”
― My Notorious Life
― My Notorious Life
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