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“The secret of blending in, is don’t try to. Everyone is so fucking self-obsessed.”
― Robert Bryndza, The Girl in the Ice

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“The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the feeble shade of emaciated mulberries, a muddy stream lived out its last days in the diabolical heat.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: desert, heat, water

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“We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

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“By noon, Pino was sitting on the steps of La Scala where he could see the front of the Hotel Regina and the Daimler parked nearby. He was numb with grief. Gazing across the street at the statue of the great Leonardo and listening to the chatter of citizens who hurried past, he wanted to cry again. Everyone was talking about the atrocity.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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“Just as successful in work and marriage was Harvey, William Tew’s oldest son. After working for his father in the family business for seventeen years, in 1870 Harvey established a rubber factory with his brother- in- law Benjamin F. Goodrich. The story goes that the pair came up with the idea after large fires swept through Jamestown, which still consisted mainly of wooden buildings, sometimes wiping out entire neighborhoods. In winter, the fire brigade was repeatedly rendered powerless when the water froze in its leather hoses. The discovery that water stayed liquid in rubber hoses made the fortunes of Harvey and his brother- in- law and formed the basis of a company that would grow into one of the world’s largest tire producers.”
― Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew

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