“It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead.”
― The Other Wind
― The Other Wind
“Baley needed a friend and he was in no mood to cavil at the fact that a gear replaced a blood vessel in this particular one.”
― The Caves of Steel
― The Caves of Steel
“There is a certain timelessness to closets.”
― Bob
― Bob
“Will each of my daughters be delivered to me, one at a time, as from the briny deep?”
― The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
― The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
“Suddenly…a sound…the strangest, undoubtedly, that these lonely cliffs of France had ever heard, broke the silent solemnity of the shore. So strange a sound was it that the gentle breeze ceased to murmur, the tiny pebbles to roll down the steep incline! So strange, that Marguerite, wearied, overwrought as she was, thought that the beneficial unconsciousness of the approach of death was playing her half-sleeping senses a weird and elusive trick. It was the sound of a good, solid, absolutely British “Damn!”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
― The Scarlet Pimpernel
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