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Death is everywhere, oppressive and beautiful.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
In the morning the bright sun rose and quickly ate up the thin ice covering the water, and the warm air was all atremble, filled with the vapours of the reviving earth. The old grass and the sprouting needles of new grass greened, the buds on the guelder-rose, the currants and the sticky, spiritous birches swelled, and on the willow, all sprinkled
... See moreLeo Tolstoy • Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
SHCHAVELYA SUP—SORREL SOUP Sauté greens (traditionally wild sorrel, or substitute dandelion, watercress, or spinach) with chopped onions until wilted and soft. Add chicken stock, bring to a boil, then simmer to finish. Remove from heat, add sugar and lemon juice for balance. Temper egg yolks with broth, stir into soup, and simmer without boiling.
... See moreJason Matthews • The Kremlin's Candidate: A Novel (The Red Sparrow Trilogy Book 3)

Come and be worshiped, come and be caressed, 270 My dark Vanessa, crimson-barred, my blest My Admirable butterfly! Explain How could you, in the gloam of Lilac Lane, Have let uncouth, hysterical John Shade Blubber your face, and ear, and shoulder blade?
Vladimir Nabokov • Pale Fire (Vintage International)

splashing in a bog of hesitation
Gabriel Garcia Marquez • One Hundred Years of Solitude
Each one volunteers to be eaten, so others might be spread far afield.