She knocked, and a woman put her head out of a door on the other side of the courtyard and said that Mademoiselle had gone to London.
She knocked, and a woman put her head out of a door on the other side of the courtyard and said that Mademoiselle had gone to London.
The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no further.We set the limits to thought".
What other future could Augusta possibly have expected?
She sounded dazed and vaguely surprised. :)
Since I'm reading with my smartphone, the page might be different...
"There were only Creoles that summer at Lebrun's."
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
She was clever at her job.
He never gets rattled.
The earth below us, ripe and fresh with blood
Credo in Unam, The complete works of Arthur Rimbaud
Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing but what he did being childish?
The winter's tale, Shakespeare. Act IV, scene III, Polixenes, king of Bohemia.
"It's not his real name" she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. Its one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants. Like Prospero is for you"
The night circus by Eric Morgrnstern
He'd gone straight out and killed it, or so he thought, intending to dissect it at Bart's.
<I'll have been paid. You watch.>
_Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. Published Arrow Books 1997
Wow, it's portentous, or just meaningless?
So she had five minutes of a kind of wild, open freedom during which anything might happen.
His name had been talked about, his practice had increased; and moreover he could go to Les Bertaux just as he liked.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
"Ashley noticed that the bottle was half empty, while Cade already appeared to be more than half full." From Revenge (aka The Stars' Tennis Balls) by Stephen Fry.
When I stood close to the canvas, I noticed that parts of her body were covered with a fine hair.
"Is there somewhere we can go to use the restroom?"
The little mermaid stood still for a minute looking at this horrible wood ; her heart beat with fear, and she would certainly have returned without attaining her object, had she not remembered the prince--and immortality.
-Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales-
"Our mission was strictly conventional, opium and hash, the primary export crop of terrorists around the world."
World War Z by Max Brooks.
"It is not out of the quesiton; you have been absent-[minded lately].
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
She expects it; she feels the touch in advance, as birds feel shadow.
Alighting at Sixty-Ninth Street, he braced himself with a visible effort and started the long climb up the four flights of stairs.
- Young Men in Spats by P.G. Wodehouse -
Gosh, I fished vigorously around for a copy of this book that was so late in release anyway, but when I finally got it and started it I found it tough going. I put it aside until I was 'ready for it' so not to spoil my enjoyment. I have still to re-pick it up. I've read most of Ken Follett's stuff and of course he is a terrific writer. I vaguely wondered if this sequel was a 'we need 20,000 words by a week next Friday' kind of project. I do admire the way he applies himself to such painstaking research into his subjects.
Sorry, I have to go - there's a fruit-fly on my screen.
They dream about fine thread
From Clouded Sky: poems by Miklos Radnoti
I was about to rush off and search the garden, when my mother told me that I must have some breakfast first.
Hi,
But now she had entered into a new current of feeling.
'Adam Bede' by George Eliot
Don Quixote begged of her to do him the favour to add hereafter the title of Lady to her name, and for his sake to be called from that time the Lady Tolosa; which she promised to do.
- Don Quixote by Cervantes -
His pursuers were slowing now.
Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
She fell silent and one of the young girls sang a song in the Greek tongue which Sharkan did not understand.
- The Book of THE THOUSAND NIGHTS and ONE NIGHT, Rendered from the literal and complete version of Dr. J. C. Mardrus; and collated with other sources; by E. Powys Mathers -
She had been stunned at finding that a passionate love-affair was not, as her marriage had led her to believe, a prescription for general happiness.
"They know nothing of the death and destruction which is near them, so that in one day they shall all perish."
-Homer's Odyssey - Signet Classics version
Bhí sé ina chónaí leis féin i detach beag ceanntuí in ascall an gleanna.
Well, the thread asked me to do it! Didn't say it was English Literature or English only! It's Irish - 'he lived by himself in a small, thatched house in a corner of the glen
He scrambled up, and ran on, and this time, the crow only hovered above, though not very high up, and still following him, but silently, and no longer attempting to swoop down.
The only sailor whose eyes could have been called green was a tall man who amused the crowd on the quay by calling out cheerfully every time the planks fell: "All right! All right!".
~ James Joyce- Dubliners ~
Love was much more nebulous than stains on linen rags - The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
But in the spring he succeeds in winning it back.
- Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder -
So that, frequently, when, after much trouble and toil, I had, at length, succeeded in bringing her down, the breakfast was nearly half over; and black looks from 'mamma,' and testy observations from 'papa,' spoken at me, if not to me, were sure to be my meed: for few things irritated the latter so much as want of punctuality at meal times.
No doubt the most exclusive drawing room, the leading house in the Faubourg SaintGermain was little or nothing after all those other mansions of which in turn I had dreamed.
the guermantes way marcel proust
It fluttered a little, and began to move towards the window, dangerously close to the passengers' feet.
By the report which he hastened over to Kellynch to make, Admiral Croft was a native of Somersetshire, who having acquired a very handsome fortune, was wishing to settle in his own country, and had come down to Taunton in order to look at some advertised places in that immediate neighbourhood, which, however, had not suited him; that accidentally hearing - (it was just as he had foretold, Mr. Shepherd observed, Sir Walter's concerns could not be kept a secret,) - accidentally hearing of the possibility of Kellynch Hall being to let, and understanding his (Mr. Shepherd's) connection with the owner, he had introduced himself to him in order to make particular inquiries, and had, in the course of a pretty long conference, expressed as strong an inclination for the place as a man who knew it only by description, could feel; and given Mr. Shephered, in his explicit account of himself, every proof of his being a most responsible, eligible tenant.