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I sat quietly and watched them, feeling a warm, almost affectionate glow towards this large and distinguished Parisian who, among all his other preoccupations, could bother to make a lonely small boy feel he was wanted.
Mary Stewart • Nine Coaches Waiting
The bathroom, shared by all the occupants, provided almost unlimited opportunities for virtue. There was a black rim around the bath, the soaked bathmat was crumpled up in a corner . . . and Miss Bates, a nursery school teacher and the only British survivor at Number 27, had hung a row of dripping camiknickers on a sagging piece of string. None of
... See moreEva Ibbotson • The Morning Gift
IN UNDERSTANDING what many perceptive men had so much difficulty in understanding—the bond that, for the next twenty years, made Sam Rayburn the ally of a man so utterly opposite to him in both principles and personality—part of the answer lies in Lady Bird Johnson’s sweetness and graciousness, and in the shyness that made Rayburn so fond of her. W
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
She had a proprietary way of admiring other people’s possessions, as if all good taste were in some measure a tribute to herself.
Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, • Collected Stories
“Please be careful, Mrs. Baumbach; my Angela has very delicate skin.” Grace Windsor Wexler
Ellen Raskin • The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Madison, because it sounds enough like my own surname to make me turn around, and Lexie because when I was a kid that was the name of my imaginary sister.
Tana French • The Likeness
