jv poore

“Doug: Either straighten out your life or drink more coffee. And from what I heard about you, Id do the latte.”
― Joseph Cognard, Written for You

“She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search Of Lost Time (All 7 Volumes)

“It did occur to him that he could perhaps get some help by praying for it; but as the prayers he said every evening were forms learned by heart, he rather shrank from the novelty and irregularity of introducing an extempore passage on a topic of petition for which he was not aware of any precedent.”
― George Eliot, Complete Works of George Eliot

“The house is two stories high and has seven rooms. It would have cost perhaps fifteen thousand in the early twenties when it was built.”
― Arthur Miller, The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays