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"The Signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all." -E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
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Celia woke with a gasp. -J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement
1:11 PM Dec 9th
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Marissa could not be comforted, and wouldn't have it any other way. -Patrick Somerville, The Cradle
1:05 PM Dec 8th
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It is useful, people generally agree, for a wife to wake up before her husband. -Alexander McCall Smith, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
2:13 PM Dec 7th
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I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves. -P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
6:51 AM Dec 6th
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When I was a kid, my father took me up on the roof of a freshly burned building. -Dennis Lehane, Darkness, Take My Hand
7:25 AM Dec 4th
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Language, as Sylvia's mother was fond of saying, mimics the human condition. -Bart Schneider, Beautiful Inez
3:23 PM Dec 3rd
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When I saw Finn waiting for me at the corner of the street I knew at once that something had gone wrong. -Iris Murdoch, Under the Net
3:28 PM Dec 2nd
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They were married during the war, in Santa Barbara, after Mass one morning in the old Mission church. -Maile Meloy, Liars and Saints
12:26 PM Dec 1st
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He came every two months for a sitting. -Ceridwen Dovey, Blood Kin
11:47 AM Nov 30th
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The young mothers were telling each other how tired they were. -Tom Perrotta, Little Children
4:06 AM Nov 29th
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First, the facts. -Richard Russo, Bridge of Sighs
10:35 AM Nov 28th
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My father had a small state in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. -Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
12:14 PM Nov 27th
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We parked the car in front of the parish jail and listened to the rain beat on the roof. -James Lee Burke, A Morning for Flamingos
12:04 PM Nov 26th
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It should be against the law to mock someone who tries his luck in a foreign language. -Chico Buarque, Budapest
12:11 PM Nov 25th
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In the beginning were the howlers. -Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
11:30 AM Nov 24th
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When I was a little girl of six or seven I was always scared when we passed the lions on our way out of town. -Per Petterson, To Siberia
4:46 AM Nov 23rd
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Summer comes late to Massachusetts. -The Condition, Jennifer Haigh
3:10 PM Nov 22nd
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George Washington Crosby began to hallucinate eight days before he died. -Paul Harding, Tinkers
4:59 AM Nov 21st
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Isaac's mother was dead five years but he hadn't stopped thinking about her. -Philipp Meyer, American Rust
3:13 PM Nov 18th
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