Maybe he could see what she was feeling, because an expression flickered across his face that she couldn’t reconcile with the officer she knew. It looked like self-doubt or indecision. “Carter,” he sighed, “this whole situation sucks.”
“I sincerely hope your Christmas...may abound in the gaieties which the season generally brings…”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“A nice frame doesn’t make a nice picture.”
― Demelza
― Demelza
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
―
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
―
“They even managed to put the books on the shelves.’ She looked closer. ‘I’m not sure I’d have put Charles Dickens next to Isaac Newton except at a dinner party, and then only if Nellie Melba hadn’t turned up, but they’ve done their best.”
― A Quiet Life in the Country
― A Quiet Life in the Country
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