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“Joanna heard the unspoken subtext in that simple statement. Jeff Daniels could call his parents and tell them the news. Marianne couldn’t. Marianne’s parents had never recovered from their daughter’s public defection from the Catholic Church and becoming a Methodist minister. Over the years, Marianne had given Joanna helpful hints about resolving the mother/ daughter rifts between Joanna and Eleanor Lathrop. That didn’t mean, however, that she had ever been able to heal the long-standing feud with her own mother.”
― J.A. Jance, Rattlesnake Crossing

“Rule #1: Protect Your Scavenger.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, Winter Turning

“It certainly seems so,’ said Dumbledore. ‘We have much to be thankful for. Would you care for a sherbet lemon?’ ‘A what?’ ‘A sherbet lemon. They’re a kind of Muggle sweet I’m rather fond of.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“She”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls