Sherry was looking very nice. Gone was her thin braid. Her new chin-length style suited her bony angles. Her skin had cleared up. She was clad in a well-tailored lawn shalwar kameez from one of the better brands and black ballet flats. #Amethyst drops shone in her ears. #QuotsyFeb20
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Khalid had seen her several times since he moved into the neighborhood two months ago, always with her red ceramic mug, always in a hurry. She was a petite woman with a round face and dreamy smile, skin a golden burnished #copper that glowed in the sullen March morning. #QuotsyFeb20
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She stopped outside Philz Coffee. Mixed in with the #rich coffee aroma was the smell of blueberry and chocolate chips baking together. It wasn‘t the most common combination, but you could do some good things with it. “A relief, huh?” He gave her a curious smile. #QuotsyFeb20
Mrs. Wattlesbrook was reminding Jane of Miss April, the spiteful, tight-bunned, glossy-lipped, stick-cracking #ballet teacher of her elementary school years. She hadn‘t much cared for Miss April. #QuotsyFeb20
All of a sudden, like an out-of-body experience, I saw myself saving tables for us in the cafeteria. Grabbing an extra side of something I knew he liked as I went through the lunch line. Calling him before bed-it was really always me who called him, wasn‘t it?-making playlists for Valentine‘s Day and pretending I didn‘t care he never gave me anything back. All those times I sat in the bleachers at practice: faithful, #hopeful, deluded.#QuotsyFeb20
Midnight... called Tom, who took me to a party a friend of his from art school was having at the Saatchi Gallery to stop me obsessing...
...“Excuse me, I‘m in a hurry.” I burst into the cubicle and was just about to get on with it when I realized the toilet was actually a molding of the inside of a toilet, #vacuum-packed in plastic. Then Daniel put his head round the door. “Bridge, don‘t wee on the Installation, will you?” he said
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A shame to have to turn his head away, when he would very much prefer to look; a shame that Sarah would of course go and fall in love and it would not be with him. But the #sorrow of it came as something of a surprise: he should by now have been perfectly accustomed to doing what he did not want to do, to letting things happen that he did not want to happen. But this? No; he could not reconcile himself to this. #QuotsyFeb20
“Without a clock, she had no idea of the time, but the silence of the house told her that everyone must be abed. She could chance going down to the #library for a book. Reading always helped her sleep.” #QuotsyFeb20
pickDelightful as a good cup of Chai. Window into a world I know nothing about: Canada's Muslim Community. Fun story yet also tackles issues of stereotyping. Particularly loved Ayesha & Clara's friendship. Two very different women, yet they are friends, who look out for one another & are always there for each other. I think Jane Austen would approve. 💖💕
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pickAlmost a So - So for me. In this Retelling of P&P it's Zuri(Elizabeth) who Dislikes at First Sight. She continually judges Darius (Darcy) and even at Come Together moment never actually admits to it. It's 'Ok.Yeah.' and then she justifies her actions some more. Makes her a hard character to like. Maybe Author's plan? Never quite got Darcy's motovation either. Ending moved it to a Pick.
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