“Don’t stand there holding the ball if a freight train’s headed for you. Can’t play in the second quarter if you’re dead.”
― While Justice Sleeps
― While Justice Sleeps
“methemoglobinemia,” he said again. That there was finally a name to my peculiarity astonished me; that it could be as big as that word scared”
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
― The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“If you want to express your individual dignity, advocate for it, even if you are that lone voice.”
― Lady in Ermine — The Story of A Woman Who Painted the Renaissance: A Biographical Novel of Sofonisba Anguissola
― Lady in Ermine — The Story of A Woman Who Painted the Renaissance: A Biographical Novel of Sofonisba Anguissola
“Her voice was often heavy with dismissed hope.”
― The Sentence: A Novel
― The Sentence: A Novel
“He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
― The Little Paris Bookshop
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