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“Don’t move, if you please. I shouldn’t like to nick you. The scissors are sharp.” “What’s the difference? You’ve already shot me.”
“Dusk is a good hour––harder to see details, but there is not so much suspicion as at night.”
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“People will love you. People will hate you. And it always has more to do with them, than it does with you.”
― Mists of The Serengeti
― Mists of The Serengeti
“Daddy?” said Lily. Her face was all lit up as she spoke into the phone. “I’m in the safe place now.”
― Mists of the Serengeti
― Mists of the Serengeti
“I knew that whenever I thought of love, it would have a face, a name, a voice. And I would hear its heart beating from inside a tent in the wilds of Africa.”
― Mists of the Serengeti
― Mists of the Serengeti
“I will remember the perfect oval of your face, the warmth of your throat, the way you hold a pen when you write. Most of all . . .” He cupped my chin, his eyes roving over my upturned face. “I will remember a strange, beautiful girl who liked the feel of old books and drank her coffee sweet. She snuck onto my porch on a gray day and taught me to see in color. She was a thief, my rainbow-haloed girl. When she left, she took my heart. And if I had another, I would give her that too”
― Mists of the Serengeti
― Mists of the Serengeti
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