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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.”
“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
“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?”
―
“Oh, she’s one of those fortunate creatures whose heads will never be troubled by the arrival of anything so inconvenient as a structured, logical, or even original thought. Nevertheless,”
― A Quiet Life in the Country
― A Quiet Life in the Country
“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
Slón’s 2025 Year in Books
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