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It was as if someone had hit him with a juju stick.
Realizing that his coffin was a ship, and it was going to take him on his final voyage.
Films are ephemeral, while books—the good ones—are eternal, or close to it.
Children believe their entire worlds revolve around them. That sense of being at the center of everything usually starts to fade by the time you’re twenty or so, but you’re a long way from that.”
I believe you hear a click, not in your head but in your soul, when you find the place where you belong. You
The cellar, on the other hand, wasn’t a bit scary. It was brightly lighted by fluorescents. After selling his shoe stores and retiring, Grandpa spent a lot of time down there doing woodwork. It always smelled sweetly of sawdust.
Every year you live, that world inside your head will get bigger and brighter, more detailed and complex.
I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes.
keriah,
The agency has working relationships with two of the city’s big law firms, the white-shoe kind with lots of names on the door.
Her little blue bag—what she thinks of as her notions bag—is by the door, packed with a clean change of clothes and her toiletries, in case she has to spend the night.
wipe their own babies’ beshitted bottoms.
Home is only two miles away, and home is where the heartache is.
Max Factor,
“McBain said there are only two types of human faces, pig faces and fox faces. I’d add that sometimes you see a man or woman with a horse face, but they’re rare. Mostly yeah, it’s pigs and foxes.”
Holly believes the path to hell is paved with faulty assumptions.
“Well, there’s white and there’s really white. Which is what Mr. Huntley is.”
Like many people who struggle with insecurity, she’s a compulsive planner-aheader, and consequently almost always early.
Holly spends thirty minutes of her Christmas morning drinking tea in her bathrobe and talking to her mother. Only it’s mostly listening, as Charlotte Gibney goes through her usual litany of passive-aggressive complaints
