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Behind him in the hall he heard something like a chuckle. “Who the hell is that? Hello?” (Had the fellow had two keys? Murdered you in your bed.) “Edward, Edward, stop these fantasies! You are too old. You are no longer seven.” A man’s
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What a freighted moment, and it's only chapter one! 😯 Feel like I'm in for a treat, and a master class in how to write.
“The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...”
― And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
― And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
“Jane Austen never married,” he said in frustration. “She entered the male-dominated field of novel writing and her female heroines are strong, independent characters. Just what do you imagine a feminist in a rural English village in the late eighteenth century looks like?”
― The Lost Book of the Grail
― The Lost Book of the Grail
“There’s no dishonor in having a job. What is dishonorable is scaring away your creativity by demanding that it pay for your entire existence.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“A peace lover is someone who enjoys the absence of conflict, but a peacemaker is someone who is proactively engaged in works of reconciliation in every sphere of life, from the personal to the global. That”
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
“Civilization balances always on a keen and precarious point, a showman spinning a fine Spode dinner plate on a long dowel slender as a stem of hay. A puff of breath, a moment’s lost attention, and it’s all gone, crashed to ruination, shards in the dirt. Then mankind retreats to the caves, leaving little behind but obelisks weathering to nubs like broken teeth, dissolving to beach sand.”
― Varina
― Varina
The Emma M. Lion Appreciation Society
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Marissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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