speak of me as I am | Reblog with the first line of your favourite book

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It is the truth universally acknowledged that a single man in posession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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They say the first of my kind was a woman named Alasdair, a human raised by hawks.

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**abandon all hope ye who enter here is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner...

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If you’re going to read this, don’t bother. After a couple pages, you won’t want to be here. So forget it. Go away. Get...

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From the top-floor window of his large four-storey house on Bloomsbury Square, Dr. Sabian Blake could see the farthest...

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It’s hard to talk when you want to kill yourself.

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A dripping faucet. Crumbs and a pink stain on the counter.

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The name of the song is “This Lullaby.” At this point, I have proba-……

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The light officially hadn’t turned green at the intersection of 17th and Broadway before an army of overconfident yellow...

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I can’t believe no one else can hear I am screaming inside my head.

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Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval...

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The Gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image: that of the sailor in the...

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I could tell you that at the time, I was your average fifteen-year-old girl with slacker grades, dysfunctional family,...

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In the fabled, glittering world that was St. Petersburg before the First World War there lived, in an ice-blue palace...

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In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game.

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The day I killed my brother’s girlfriend started with me handpicking leaves off our front lawn.

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I am the vampire Lestat.

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oldfilmsflicker:(megmess:brighteryellow:camanda:downinpockets: starsandsons:judesan:)...I...

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“Clare: It’s hard being left behind.” over and over, and over again; & John and Mary meet. What happens next? If you...

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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Those afternoons, those lazy afternoons, when I used to sit, or lie down, on Desolation Peak, sometimes on the alpine...

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In my first memory, I am three years old am I am trying to kill my sister.

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The year that Buttercup was born the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette.

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“The gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it. Even my best mate, Marvin, knows it, and he’s...

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The Salinas Valley is in Northern California.

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“I have carefully collected whatever I have been able to learn of the story of poor Werther, and here present it to you,...

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‘C’ Company lines, which were at...hill, I paused and looked back at

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.

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“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever...

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“If your intentions are pure, I’m seeking a friend for the end of the world.”

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“When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,” Papa would say, “she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery...

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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing...

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”The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.” “The morning after noted child...

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We keep burning in the brown smog pit.

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“In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay...

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“It wasn’t a very likely place for disappearance, at least at first glance.”

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“It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that been preoccupying my imagination now for...

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Maman died today.

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Shadow had done three years in prison.

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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy...

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drawn on fine golden paper, smooth...touch, in both Sanskrit

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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy...

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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

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I was born with water on the brain.

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“There was no possibility of talking a walk that day.”

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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

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The hunters were closing in for the kill.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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On a brilliant March day all blazing light and radiant blue sky above the dazzling snowfields, the idea of ghosts pales...

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longlivethequeen:captainkirk:woahitsjuanito:musicalirony:christielouwho:...The night...

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in posession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

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When it all began; pigs and crisis; close encounters with management.

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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“Clare: It’s hard being left behind.”

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Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time...

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“My legal name is Alexander Perchov.”

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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy...

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“The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.” aaaand “The way I figure it,...

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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

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“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”

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On they went, singing “Rest Eternal,” and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to...

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the salinas valley is in northern california.

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They’re out there.

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I get shivers whenever I see those old black-and-white films of Elvis getting shorn for Uncle Sam.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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one fish two fish red fish blue fish

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Dear Friend, I am writing you because she said you would listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person...

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Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing a gun...my mouth and...

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August 25, 1991 Dear friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with...

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The other problem I had was that I was falling in love with my best friend, Gretchen, who I thought rest of the world...

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These…. I want to add my own but my cat Smeagol is sleeping on me and I would feel bad waking her up to go find the...

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The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed sub-category.

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don’t know why I didn’t call myself...feminist until I was in college.”

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Lest anyone should suppose that I am a cuckoo’s child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by lusty peasant stock and...

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“I wasn’t born a first lady or a senator.”

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The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of...

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“IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

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“The scene that the child, then the girl, then the young woman tried so hard to remember was clear enough in its...

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Scarlett O’Hara...not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as...

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Pregnant. Lmao. It’s a book that’s like a diary a teenage mother writes in to her unborn baby, about her life and how...

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A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of the head.

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where you’re supposed to be is some big West Hills wedding reception in a big manor house with flower arrangements and...

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When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there’s either something wrong with your skills or...

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“The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw.”

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Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

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my name was salmon, like the fish; first name, susie.

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“The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my...

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When they write my obituary. or Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories...

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Lessa woke, cold. …It’s a short first sentence.

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Again..When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with...

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i’m sure the one above you is to kill a mockingbird. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.

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If you listen, you can hear it. AND, since I have 2 favorite books.. The play—for which Briony had designed the posters,...

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Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval...

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So much win for To Kill a Mockingbird. “The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit...

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tumblingnoodle / doctorr / paperbuildings / fujiidom / allshallfade / ionsquare...Though...

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It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself.

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an old man who fished alone in...he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

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POINTS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO PUT TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, OMG when he looks at his hand, he sees the hand he remembers—...

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I’d never given much thought to how I would die, though I’d had reason enough in the last few months, but even if I had,...

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^ what book is that? “I’ll race you to the corner, Ellen!” Annemarie adjusted the thick leather pack on her back so that...

doctorr reblogged this from paperbuildings and added:

Another one for … When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

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Who is John Galt?

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“I am Sam.” JUST KIDDING! “Seldon paused in surprise.”

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“When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, LEO GURSKEY IS SURVIVED BY AN APARTMENT FULL OF...

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”Like most people, I didn’t meet and talk to Rant Casey until after he was dead.”

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When I reached ‘C’ company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming...

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Would I find La Maga?

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I was unconscious, I’d stopped breathing.

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A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. Una gorra de cazador verde apretaba la cima de una...

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one of my favourite books (the first line was like 3 words so i though i’d put the first 2 sentences) what about a...

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It’s hard being left behind.

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Two months after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Robert Kennedy traveled to Asia on an itinerary that had originally...

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very...

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The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it “the Riddle House,” even though it had been many years since the...

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A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND...

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Sophie Amundsen was on her way home from school.

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The Healer’s name was Fords Deep Waters.

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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small...

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Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe I don’t know.

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Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that...would shortly be celebrating

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“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my...

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nearing midnight...the Prime Minister...his office, reading...

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i havent got one fav book. “Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out...

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[the one above and the Oscar Wilde one are amazing but I have to go with…] “He should never have taken that shortcut.”

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Where you’re supposed to be is some big West Hills wedding reception in a big manor house with flower arrangements and...

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Dear Friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at...

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I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party...

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My mother is standing in front of the mirror smelling polished and ready; like Jean Nate, Dippity Do, and the waxy...

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The two men appeared out of nowhere, in a narrow, dark, moonlit lane.

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since:...

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Where you’re supposed to be is some big West Hills wedding reception in a big manor house with flower arangements and...

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Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler’s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life...

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Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler is pushing a gun into my mouth and saying the first step to eternal...

seularen reblogged this from lottieeeee and added:

(Not my favorite book, but my favorite first line) Alice was cold.

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Dear friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at...

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oldfilmsflicker (megmess:brighteryellow:camanda:downinpockets: starsandsons:judesan:)

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“The four ex-military men waded hip-deep in the rainy, muddy grime of their memories as bottle after bottle begat glass...

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THE SNOW in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity...

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“Once when I was six I saw a magnificent picture in a book about the jungle, called True Stories.”

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“We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised...

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queer, sultry summer,...summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs,

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two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on...planet which was dying fast.

labeledbones reblogged this from unflinchingly and added:

“Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic.”

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“Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins...

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On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large,...

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“Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.”

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“Pink and gray sky, the color of muscle.”

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Far out in the uncharted backwaters...the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of...

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“All this happened, more or less.”

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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. I Capture the Castle OR On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn...

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You think you know where this story is going to end, but you don’t.

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What about a teakettle?

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♥, that book is next to me in this right moment. god knows, i love that book like only you can love dear people in your...

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A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND...

hosullivan reblogged this from undercoverdyke and added:

Dude. YES. Favorite author. Have you read My Cousin Rachel? It’s almost as good, I loved it so hard.

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Por dificultades en el último momento para adquirir billetes, llegué...Barcelona a...

thethirdoption reblogged this from christielouwho and added:

Winter came early that year; it should have been a tip-off.

undercoverdyke reblogged this from hosullivan and added:

“Rebecca”!!!! Oh, such a great read. Daphne duMaurier is the shit.

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En el siglo XVIII vivio en Francia uno de los hombres mas geniales y abominables

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed philosophers with it: to think that...

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”My legal name is Alexander Perchov, but all of my friends dub me Alex, because that is a more flaccid-to-utter version...

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“When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to an FM broadcast of the...

thegreatbookoffairytales reblogged this from suzywire and added:

‘It was 7 minutes after midnight.’

hosullivan reblogged this from heylabodega and added:

fishy:(oldfilmsflicker:judesan) “Last night I dreamt I went...Manderley again.”

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The expression “Breakfast of Champions” is a registered trademark of General Mills, Inc. for use on a breakfast cereal...

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A tie between: “That fool of...fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay

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I am Sam, Sam am I

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Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool...

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Jack Torrence thought: Officious little prick.

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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

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Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

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more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over...my mind...

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