“Sometimes it takes such a terrible amount of effort to be normal.”
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sherrisilvera Love this quote! 4d
Eggs @sherrisilvera Isn‘t it great?! Guess it depends on what one‘s “normal” is… 4d
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“Sometimes it takes such a terrible amount of effort to be normal.”
#firstlinefridays
@ShyBookOwl
“Some children are just born bad, plain and simple.”
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(A day late)
"Cash stepped out of the cab of her Ranchero onto the soft, black dirt of the field she was to plow under."
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"Having kidnapped the rake, Persephone Ballard found she was not entirely certain what to do with him."
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From "The Christmas I Stole a Viscount" - a free holiday novella if you sign up for Vasti's newsletter. I loved the tagged book and from the first line of this one, I think it's also going to be a hoot!
"He was sitting on the top of the rear gate-posts of the churchyard when I walked through on Christmas Eve, grooming in his lordly style, with one back leg wrapped round his neck, and his bitten ear at an angle of forty-five degrees, as usual."
- The Trinity Cat, Ellis Peters
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“In the Hall of Two Truths at the Temple of Ma‘at, the Goddess of Divine Speech, sentence of death was about to be passed.”
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“It started with a whisper you heard while in line at a coffee shop, a story you probably should‘ve ignored.”
I‘m so hooked, but I wish I would‘ve gotten a hold of this sooner! It‘s definitely got some heavy #fall vibes & they have to figure everything out by #Halloween.
Dying for a holiday read! What might be at my #library?!
(Not in the mood for cheesy, sappy, predictable stuff)
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Reading today, another short by Poe. I‘ve only known a couple of his poems and really like the rhythm that runs through them, I‘m finding this rhythm is also in his shorts. This is the third story I will be reading by Edgar Allan Poe.
