“The book she had been reading was under her #pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.” #QuotsyMay21 #QuotsyCatchup
“The book she had been reading was under her #pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.” #QuotsyMay21 #QuotsyCatchup
“ They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” #smash #QuotsyMay21 #QuotsyCatchup
“The black dress of the average witch was usually only theoretically black. In reality, it was often rather dusty, and quite possibly patched in the vicinity of the knees and somewhat ragged at the hem and, of course, very nearly worn through by frequent washings. It was what it was: working clothes.” #patch #QuotsyMay21 #QuotsyCatchup
“I'm sure computers are useful, but next to all these warm, beautiful books they seem so cold and #clinical.” #QuotsyMay21 #QuotsyCatchup
“I've never really liked diamonds since I found out they weren't the lovely #purple I had dreamed. They will always suggest my old disappointment .” #QuotsyMar21 #QuotsyCatchup
“#March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.” #QuotsyCatchup #QuotsyMar21
“The others in the room switched from shouting profanity at the combatants to shouting at me, all trying to tell me different versions of what had happened. I yelled, “Shut up!”
(The good thing about pretending to be an augmented human security consultant instead of a construct SecUnit is that you can tell the humans to shut up.)
Everybody shut up.”
#QuotsyOct20 #Construct #QuotsyCatchup