It's National Book Week. The rules are...grab the closest book to you, turn to page 56, post the 5th sentence as your status. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your status.

"And sometimes it takes an entire lifetime to recognize God's calling."

it‘s better to light a single candle than to sit and curse the dark.

Hilarious adventure.

She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.

I was beginning to get an image of my dear papa sitting quietly in the center of a web whose strands extended all over the globe.

“Fine feathers, my dear sir,” I said briskly. “They are becoming even to elderly hens."

I don't know how I've lived this long without Elizabeth Peters, but now that I've found her, I'm going to gorge myself.