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“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
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Terry Pratchett
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“They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the candle on the table startled me at first, just as it had in the icy night air. After seeing it on the street, I was afraid I had only imagined it: a still, luminous face with a silvery sheen. Finely hewn, with a long, straight nose and a wide mouth, it was nearly identical to another face, which I had photographed years before. Not on a person, bu on the fragment of a frieze I found in some ruins near Verona, The frieze, which depicted a band of musicians, had once been shadowed beneath a cornice high on the temple of Mercury, god of magic. Belonging to one of the musicians, it was a riveting face - like a puzzle that could not be solved - which I had never found, or expected to find, on a living woman.”
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Nicholas Christopher
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“In lower Manhattan there is an improbable point where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place. It was there that I met Veronica, on a snowy, windy night.”
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Nicholas Christopher
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| Soderberg has been compared to Stieg Larsson. I don't think so. Their writing styles are polar opposites. Larsson is very serious, whereas Soerberg writes with his tongue placed firmly in his cheek. This book is filled with a motley cast of character...more | |
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| I don't think that I've read anything by Connelly before. I like Harry Bosch. The pace was good. I think I'll read more. | |
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| I wonder if I'm getting tired of the Brennan series . . . This one just didn't really do that much for me. I was annoyed with Brennan and annoyed with Ryan. I was even annoyed with Lowery's father. | |
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| This book was luminous. It made me want to read more Green immediately. | |
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“give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
― Warsan Shire
― Warsan Shire
“The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
“all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun.”
― Warsan Shire
― Warsan Shire
“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
― Warsan Shire
― Warsan Shire
“You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.”
― Andrea Gibson The Nutritionist
― Andrea Gibson The Nutritionist
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