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| Exciting and suspensful read. I had a hard time putting it down once I got to the second half. I have some big issues with it though. The protaganist that no woman can resist feels a bit like wish-fulfillment for the author. Also, the constant de...more | |
“Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world of swirling dust illuminated in tiger stripes by light shining through the cracks between the boards. Old leather tack, lengths of chain, rope, and baling twine dangled from nails and rafters and draped over stall railings. Generations of pocketknives lay lost in the layers of detritus on the floor.”
― Carolyn Jourdan, Heart in the Right Place
― Carolyn Jourdan, Heart in the Right Place
“Life itself is the proper binge.”
― Julia Child
― Julia Child
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
― Julia Child
― Julia Child
“They are closing the mine in two weeks, they say. Six days a week bumping down in the gondola, pecking out the rocks and hauling them back up, doing it again the next day for twenty-seven years, one cave-in, three thin raises, and a failed strike. Where am I going to go every day, what am I going to do with all that sunshine?”
― Lou Beach, 420 Characters
― Lou Beach, 420 Characters
“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”
― Joanne Harris, Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
― Joanne Harris, Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
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