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Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Remember
“Cyanide,” I am going to put under “Uses” the phrase “Particularly efficacious in the cure of those who call one ‘Dearie.’
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
Toccata by Pietro Domenico Paradisi—the one from his Sonata in A Major—come
EVEN THOUGH WE DE LUCES HAD BEEN ROMAN Catholics since chariot races were all the rage, that did not keep us from attending St. Tancred’s, Bishop’s Lacey’s only church and a fortress of the Church of England if ever there was one.
“Mediocrity, I discovered, was the great camouflage; the great protective coloring.
silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.
‘Unless some sweetness at the bottom lie, Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie?’
Still not sure what this means
a substance tends to be dissolved by solvents that are chemically similar to it. There
torque, tension, and tenacity.
cyanide blue tent dress,
brass earrings the size of soup plates.
