Then I learned that I could bend the world to my will, as a bow is bent for an arrow.

If anyone came, I would only be able to scream, and a thousand nymphs before me knew what good that did.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn‘t mean you should?

The more distressing the memory, the more persistence its presence.

#HumpDayPost @MinDea
2. Yes
3. 🛀 and a 📖
4. Bugs 🤣
5. Yes, sometimes
6. Not really
Thanks for the tag @Ddzmini

Checked it out to see what all the fuss is about. Idk why it‘s sideways.

I let my mom borrow this. She said she‘s 28 pages in and she almost doesn‘t want to finish it because it‘s so 😢😭 @laurenlovesliterature . Can‘t wait to read it myself.

@Libby1

The world just has a habit of moving on.

The main difficulty with sitting at a table by yourself is that there‘s nothing to distract you from hearing other people‘s conversations. I‘m not eavesdropping; I just can‘t help hearing it.

Best. Grammar. Book. Ever. She talks about grammar and English in plain English.

“What is your name? I‘d like to be able to call you something when I bring your bucket back.”
He did not answer.
“Well?”
“Dov!”
“Karen is mine. Perhaps you can call me that and we can say hello. At least till you learn to smile.”

...but she leaves behind her an unmistakable sense of watchful remonstrance, as if an angel had briefly touched the surface of the world with one sandaled foot, asked if there was any trouble and, being told all was well, had resumed her place in the ether with skeptical gravity, having reminded the children of earth that they are just barely trusted to manage their own business, and that further carelessness will not go unremarked.

There is a ring of organized thieves on the island. They are so damned clever we don‘t even know what they are stealing.

There is nothing we can do to frighten these people. They are graduates of concentration camps.

He recalled the story of Daniel and the lions again... “My God hath sent his anger, and hath shut the lions‘ mouths,” Daniel told him, “forasmuch as innocency was found in me.” That wasn‘t exactly right, but David knew the word “innocency” was. 🤣🤣

You‘ve been living so long with so-called civilized folk that you‘re starting to think like them.

1. Both
2. Three, but I think most people use two in speech🤔
3. Litsy, Audible, Nook
4. Reading, bonding with the puppy 🐶
5. @Baawrabookster @thereadingowlvina @Stacielynnw41 #friyayintro @jesshowbooks

I can‘t tell if he‘s trying to give the appearance of patience and failing miserably or is blatantly trying to make me leave.

Am I the only one who reads 2 or 3 books at a time?

Then, as so often happens when one reaches the end of the line, there was a turning upward and she emerged into the light.

This is not a case of politics but of humanity. #truth #humanity

You have that terrible American tendency toward being overdramatic.

It was not stupidity nor lack of talent, but complete inability to find his niche in life.

Mark often wondered what made her so desirable. Maybe it was because she seemed so unreachable to him.

On the desk, flanked by a joke sign (LEAD ME NOT INTO TEMPTATION, FOR I SHALL FIND IT MYSELF)...

He assumed that people out here did not, as a rule, bother locking their doors.

Free. At a community center. I bet, hope, and nearly pray 🙏🏼 some of them are really really good. Doubt I will be disappointed.

Read it for a history class a few years ago... helped me write an awesome final paper 📝

Hopping in the 🛁 with this 📔

Must reread! Haven‘t read it since high school. 99 cents for Nook book.