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Vicki Parsons

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Vicki’s Quotes

“When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”
― Colette, Claudine and Annie

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“Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

tags: disagreeable, eccentric, happiness, hard-times, inspirational, ridiculous

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“I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the winding garden path to the small blue front door with, perfectly, a white cat on the step. No one would ever find me there, either, behind all those roses, and just to make sure I would plant oleanders by the road. I will light a fire in the cool evenings and toast apples at my own hearth. I will raise white cats and sew white curtains for the windows and sometimes come out of my door to go to the store to buy cinnamon and tea and thread. People will come to me to have their fortunes told, and I will brew love potions for sad maidens; I will have a robin...”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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“And then the rains came. They came down from the hills and up from the sound. And it rained a sickness. And it rained a fear. And it rained an odor. And it rained a murder. And it rained dangers and pale eggs of the beast. Rain poured for days, unceasing. Flooding occurred. The wells filled with reptiles. The basements filled with fossils. Mossy-haired lunatics roamed the dripping peninsulas. Moisture gleamed on the beak of the raven. Ancient Shaman's rained from their homes in dead tree trunks, clacked their clamshell teeth in the drowned doorways of forests. Rain hissed on the freeway. It hissed at the prows of fishing boats. It ate the old warpaths, spilled the huckleberries, ran into the ditches. Soaking. Spreading. Penetrating. And it rained an omen. And it rained a poison. And it rained a pigment. And it rained a seizure.”
― Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

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IRR Romance Month Readathon — 9 members — last activity Aug 21, 2014 08:18PM
A few of us from the FB/blog I'd Rather read have decided to celebrate August's designation as Read a Romance month, by reading romances! Hope to get ...more

Harlequin Presents Readers — 1932 members — last activity Oct 14, 2025 10:29PM
If you find yourself unable to resist reading the Harlequin Presents line, and you want to be around people who can identify with your addiction, and ...more

Readers of Romance Cheaters — 1308 members — last activity Aug 22, 2025 07:28AM
formerly DON'T SHOOT ME!! Looking for Cheating Hero. . . . . . . We are readers of romance books where SOMEBODY cheats. This can be long-term affair ...more

Gothicked (Gothic Novel Lovers) — 483 members — last activity Feb 03, 2022 10:03AM
If you are interested in Gothic Novels (esp. Gothic Romance novels from the 60s and 70s) this group is for you. I do blog reviews of novels by Barbara ...more

Bodice Ripper Readers Anonymous — 1865 members — last activity Oct 02, 2025 05:20AM
Do you enjoy epic romance novels set in exotic locations with aggressive and possessive heroes and spitfire heroines? Whether you hide these "guilty p ...more

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