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She passed through all the layers of smell that made up a city—baking bread and waking horses and wet stone and hot metal and floral perfume and old shit. The same smells you found in any city, but underneath them, the morning scent of the
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This reminds me of both Boston and Portland - anyone who greets dawn in any city knows this layered smell well.
“Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and the most delicate. The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.”
― In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
― In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
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“We were brought up not to throw in the towel but to bite the bullets and fold towels neatly”
― Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
― Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
“Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.”
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“Ours is a tale of unremitting death”
― The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel
― The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel
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