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"I had a twin sister who disappeared while we were in grad school."
“If we met You at all, God, it was in the carnal, and I know You approve, I just know it.”
"The grandness of the world, the real world, the whole world, is a known thing for you." (From Between the World and Me)
'I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.'
“Ellen didn’t talk to anyone much, but we knew she was listening.”
"She wanted to believe it, but their challenge was getting... complicated." (The Window by Glenn Rolfe)
"Their smiles had been sewn or painted on."
The camera swung towards the house, and it catches her in close-up as she walks out the front door
“Not sure, but Ben wants everyone to go outside in five minutes for a surprise.”
"I need more packs."
Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done - cook an omelette, change lightbulbs, make with hugging - sometimes almost made being a woman fun.
“There was a pause as we gathered ourselves.”
"A red metal imp hangs from the green-painted front door, as a knocker, do not touch it; it will bit your fingers."
"He wondered if she were merely trying to be polite."
He opens his mouth to answer, when the boy appears.(From CITY OF GHOSTS)
"Everyone has heard stories about women like us - cautionary tales, morality plays, warnings of what will befall you if you are a girl too wild for the world, a girl who asks too many questions or wants too much."
Pledged is pledged! (from Wytches)
Book Bunny wrote: "Pledged is pledged! (from Wytches)""It was the most talked-about and yet the most tedious betrothal of the year." (from Lord Wraybourne's Bethrothed: A Romance of Regency England
The group around me howled like it was a full moon at a rabies convention. Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lewis
Only a sliver of golden moon shone in the liquid dark, floating, rocking, always moving, always out of my reach.
It was cold as ice in the hospital morgue. Not that Maia was shivering, but she felt it, like needles prickling her skin.
So high they made my head reel, loomed distorted traces of our own shadows.
Pop! Pop! Pop! “Were those gunshots?”
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Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon
Books mentioned in this topic
Lord Wraybourne's Betrothed (other topics)Spell Booked (other topics)
The Window (other topics)
Between the World and Me (other topics)
I am going to post a quote from one of the books I have read or plan to read, during these 24 hours. The next post will then include a quote from one of their reads, which follows on (in some form) from my quote. The post below this will include a quote that continues this story, and so on and so on... Until we have created a new story together, by piecing together quotes from a variety of different books. Make sense? Just ask if you have any queries.
My starting quote:
“Whatever you know, or think you know, of Ilsa Mancelli, you won’t have heard about me.”