Frannie leaned one hand against the warm metal of her car, took off her sneakers, and put on a pair of rubber thongs.
The stand, Stephen King
Frannie leaned one hand against the warm metal of her car, took off her sneakers, and put on a pair of rubber thongs.
The stand, Stephen King
Vomiting in null gravity wouldn't be fun.
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card.
I am an old-fashioned man who has stuck by certain romantic notions dear to me, one of which is the highly subjectivizing contrast I feel between the nature of the artist and the nature of the ordinary man.
Thomas Mann - 'Doctor Faustus'
She turned from the window and dropped her nightgown over her head.
Here, participants watch and hear people act out unscripted interactions.
'Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.'
Volumnia in Coriolanus
"A small flame would be extinguished, but a bright fire rapidly claims as its own all that is heaped on it, devours it all, and leaps up yet higher in consequence."
-Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
Not as good as some of the others here.
The little girl had been offered the oppertunity of laying down a foundation ofknowledge in this establishment; but having spent a sigle day in it, she had protested against its laws and had been allowed to stay at home, where, in the September days, when the windows of the Dutch house were open, she used to hear the hum of childish voices repeating the multiplication table-an indicdent in which the elation of liberty and the pain of exclusion were indistinguishably mingled.
Portait of a Lady - Henry James
'People,' Gerald turned his head, 'like to invent monsters and monstrosities.'
The Lash Wish- Andrzej Sapokowski
Good one.Originally Posted by Drnobody901
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
"And - once this curtain had risen - when on the stage a writing table and a fireplace, in no way out of the ordinary, had indicated that the persons who were about to enter would be, not actors come to recite as I had once seen some of them do at an evening party, but real people, just living their lives at home, on whom I was thus able to spy without their seeing me, my pleasure still endured."
From volume 2 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Within a Budding Grove. Characteristically long.
Bl**dy hell, what a great sentence was that! I'll have to pluck up the courage for Proust once!
"Economically - with a dash of love."
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, 1868
One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.
"Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
"The only true presumption is the rebuttable presumption of law in terms of which an assumption which is demanded by law, must be accepted in the absence of evidence or proof to the contrary." Principles of Evidence 2nd Ed by Schwikkard & Van der Merwe
"I can't take much more of it, Chango, open it up."
8 - When Johnny comes marching home ADAM FAITH Parlophone
Chart listings. Top 40 charts (UK) introduced by David Mcaleer
What are regrets? Just lessons we haven't learned yet - Beth Orton
I wanted her to be a slave so that I could set her free and make her rich.
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