Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen

30Apr09

Age is a terrible thief. Just when you’re getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse. -p.17 I try to brush the hairs flat with my hand and freeze at the […]

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The Crimson Portrait, Jody Shields

30Apr09

“All hospitals should have glass roofs,” he declared to a startled orderly. “The patients could watch the stars when they couldn’t sleep.” To be surrounded by such regular order was surely joy, he thought. -p.84 If the human mind believes in the usefulness of a thing, which is in itself quite useless, it can happen […]

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