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Michelle Brumley
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She cleaned so often, but she couldn’t clean set-in stains or threadbare carpet, poorly patched furniture or cracked appliances. She couldn’t clean dirt poor.
I love this line so much.
“The sky was overladen with stars. If you looked closely there were stars in the grass as well--dew turned to ice on the tips of grass blades.”
― The Surrounded
― The Surrounded
“You can tell that things are fundamentally wrong when a statute has to be passed (in 1330) to stop galoers [jailers] refusing to accept certain prisoners. It seems they are refusing to imprison criminals who are not rich enough to bribe them.
Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.”
― The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.”
― The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
“The rain was that endless, gray, pounding kind of rain that makes your house feel cold and sad even if your mother's spirit isn't dying upstairs.”
― The Round House
― The Round House
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield
"Why do we got names like we do?" I said.
"They come from old Indian names. We had our own way of naming before white people came over and spread all those dad names around in order to keep the power with the dads."
I didn't understand this explanation about dads. And I didn't know if Bear Shield meant shields that bears used to protect themselves, or shields people used to protect themselves against bears, or were the shields themselves made out of bears?”
― There There
"Why do we got names like we do?" I said.
"They come from old Indian names. We had our own way of naming before white people came over and spread all those dad names around in order to keep the power with the dads."
I didn't understand this explanation about dads. And I didn't know if Bear Shield meant shields that bears used to protect themselves, or shields people used to protect themselves against bears, or were the shields themselves made out of bears?”
― There There
Constructive Witticism
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