'The lettuces are important to me,' she said, looking down at her bracelets and then across to him again.
'The lettuces are important to me,' she said, looking down at her bracelets and then across to him again.
And Why?
Under the Sun of Satan ~ Georges Bernanos
Do you?
She took it, her face pleased, warm, though not very much surprised.
William Faulkner- Light in August
You suffer horribly....Ah!
The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde
Actually the book beside my hand is Russian-English dictionary, bur right now I am reading 'Swejk' by Jaroslav Hasek and the sentence is: Ez a Stendler külonben is borzásztó peches ember volt, már magándetektív korában is.
Which means 'But even Mr Stendler had awfully bad luck as a private detective.'
Diez ańos antes, había una gran cantidad de retratos de lo que parecía una gran pelota rosada con gorros de diferentes colores, pero Dudley Dursley ya no era un nińo pequeńo, y en aquel momento las fotos mostraban a un chico grande y rubio montando su primera bicicleta, en un tiovivo en la feria, jugando con su padre en el ordenador, besado y abrazado por su madre...
From Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal
- Practicing Spanish using a well known story
It used to be a microphone, and you'd take polaroids.
"Yes, sir." Go Down Moses - William Faulkner
"World. Hast thou a Wife and Children?"
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
I like this thread. :)
"Lets go play with Quentin and Luster" Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury.
This is such a challenging read for me.
"It was all bravado: passionless and therefore unreal."
Man and Superman - G.B.Shaw
"The lower courses of a wall, the dado, orthostates and covering courses, had surfaces projecting slightly from the plane formed by the remainder of the wall, an echo of the contrast between stone footing and mud brick."
Sir Bannister Fletcher's - "A History ofArchitecture"
Gilliatt
The furniture, with its curves and chipped gilding, so like the former grandeur of a rundown Westwood motel, looks very odd and pretentious to the American eye when you first come to France, until you remember that this is their normal furniture, the Louis were their kings.
"Abgesehen davon wusste ich vieles - sehr vieles - überhaupt nicht." Sternenschatten - S. Lukianenko