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“Should is a funny thing.“

“You, sir, are not harsh, but you are austere, delivering painful justice because mercy would encourage wolves.”

“I suppose I had one advantage: I had no fear of losing my wanker.“

“It’s like nothing I’ve felt before.”

“I hold the world but as the world, a stage where every man must play a part. And mine is a sad one.”

“Miss Lina, if you don’t mind my saying, you put the autumn leaves to shame with your beauty.”

I needed to let the idea of him go because that’s what he was. An idea.

“During our school-yard duel, surrounded by boys who were thirsty for a bloody fight, I lost a tooth but gained an improved sense of proportion. We were ten years old. From that day on, Tomás Aguilar became my best—and I his only—friend.”

“I tossed him the keys. I would have loved to see the look on his face when he caught them. But I had already turned away.”

The student council president (who also happened to be captain of the football team), referred to it as a conflagration. And Woolly knew right then and there that no matter what he had to say, they were all going to take the side of the thesaurus.

“Once liberated from its prison on the shelf, the book shed a cloud of golden dust.”

And strawberry preserves? Don’t you get me started on strawberry preserves!

If we’ve got unfinished business, let’s finish it.
You could wait your whole life to say a sentence like that and not have the presence of mind to say it when the time comes. That sort of level-headedness isn’t the product of upbringing or practice. You’re either born with it or you’re not. And mostly, you’re not.

The sheriff took Emmett’s hand in order to help him off the ground. But as he did so, he took the opportunity to look at Emmett’s knuckles.

To emphasize the spirit of cooperation, Anne leaned forward and took another olive off my stack. I put three fingers in my drink, scooped out half the olives, and dumped them in her glass.

In sixty seconds it was going to be the midpoint between the beginning and the end of time.

I just wanted a second shot at a first impression—

—You’ve got a . . . lot of books, he said at last. —It’s a sickness. —Are you . . . seeing anyone for it? —I’m afraid it’s untreatable.

The one thing for certain at Belmont was that on Wednesday at 5:00 A.M. there was no place for the common man. This was like the circles of Dante’s Inferno—populated with men of varied sins, but also with the shrewdness and devotion of the damned.

What a wonderful wish, he said, to wish for another.”

“Katey’s the hottest bookworm you’ll ever meet. If you took all the books that she’s read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.”

I fear I must put this back on the shelf. I won’t DNF it because Amy Harmon is a favorite author of mine, but it just isn’t meeting my expectations. It’s moving very slowly and I am not connecting with the main characters. Guess I’ll save it for a rainy day when I don’t have anything else to read.

Act one, scene one of any KS book always packs a punch. False Witness is no exception. She can sure suck you right the hell into the story. I’m down for the duration!!

Could it possibly be? 😳😬🤔

“This is the dick-measuring part of it.”

Mercy didn’t count; Mercy wasn’t cheating; Mercy was a given.

Ghost is a selfish, fucking asshole. 😡

Funny story as well as a blonde moment (although I’m not blonde). I decided to read and listen to by Karen White. It was on my TBR. I just realized that I purchased The Time In Between by María Dueñas instead. SMH!! I sure hope it’s good. LOL!!