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"The Wishing Well--Way longer than I had the patience for at ~70 pages. I feel bad that I disliked Brenda and her problems, but I did." — May 14, 2013 10:23am
"The Wishing Well--Way longer than I had the patience for at ~70 pages. I feel bad that I disliked Brenda and her problems, but I did." — May 14, 2013 10:23am
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“To find not only that this bedlam of color was true but that the pictures were pale and inaccurate translations, was to me startling. I can't even imagine the forest colors when I am not seeing them. I wondered whether constant association could cause inattention, and asked a native New Hampshire woman about it. She said that autumn never failed to amaze her; to elate. 'It is a glory,' she said, 'and can't be remembered, so that it always comes as a surprise.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“With all the polls and opinions posts, with newspapers more opinion than news so that we no longer know one from the other....”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
“But from the start I had withheld from him any information about the giant redwoods. It seemed to me that a Long Island poodle who had made his devoirs to Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoia gigantea might be set apart from other dogs--might even be like that Galahad who saw the Grail. The concept is staggering.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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