"Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren't looking, alluring and ever out of reach"
"Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren't looking, alluring and ever out of reach"
"Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren't looking, alluring and ever out of reach"
"It's hard, Mr. Lancaster, when you think a deal o' your own, not to give them something better than you had yourself... A man can go an' fight his own way in the world, but if a woman's got to bide at home, the schoolin's likely learned her nowt but hankering for what's out of her reach."
The only sentence I truly understood so far, "Cartographers call blank spaces on a map "sleeping beauties.""
So far it was just blocks and blocks of wooden skeletons, each one an outline of a house, each one allowing you to see the outline of the one next to it, and the outline of the one next to that. A teenage girl sat smoking on the second floor of one skeleton house, she looked like Wonder Woman....
Cute and funny, light summer time reading.
Cute though not quite Calvin and Hobbes. Just not as much gravitas.
I take the world in through my eyes best and there would never be any words without these pictures.
"Billowy hair, immodest chest plate, wide belt, belligerent stride..." Best character description.
"She has a big personality" means she's loud as a T.rex.
"Let us all be from somewhere. Let us tell each other everything we can." - Bob Hicok "A Primer"
Some of the best mornings are spent in bed with a fresh cup of coffee, the dogs, and a new library book.
...she was remembering what it was like when you broke up with someone. Conversations became do hopelessly tangled. You had to be polite and precise. You couldn't safely criticize anymore, because you didn't have the right. You'd lost your immunity.