The Cider House Rules
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Read between January 31 - February 24, 2014
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The flying dead in bras and girdles especially frightened the stationmaster.
Tim Healy
Least likely sentence in a novel, so far.
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The assistant to the stationmaster was a young man who had modeled his particularly unlikable officiousness upon the officiousness of the stationmaster, so that he had a completely inappropriate old-fart, complaining, curmudgeonly aspect to his youthfulness—this
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“Here in St. Cloud’s we have just one problem. His name is Homer Wells. He’s a problem, wherever he goes.”
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To Nurse Edna, who was in love, and to Nurse Angela, who wasn’t (but who had in her wisdom named both Homer Wells and Fuzzy Stone), there was no fault to be found in the hearts of either Dr. Stone or Dr. Larch, who were—if there ever were—Princes of Maine, Kings of New England.