

“The optimism was like the sun after a long spell of clouds and rain, a euphoric rush which produced both envy and awe in anyone who had become jaded, resigned, who had given up on their dreams.”
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

“In Treasure Island, Savannah is the place where Captain John Flint, the murderous pirate with the blue face, has died of rum before the story begins. It is on his death bed in Savannah that Flint bellows his last command - "Fetch aft the rum, Darby!" - and hands Billy Bones a map of Treasure Island. "He gave it me at Savnnah," says Bones, "when he lay a-dying." The book has a drawing of Flint's map in it with an X marking the location of the buried treasure.”
― Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
― Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest I that I go to than I have ever known."
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens”
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A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens”
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“La goutte d'eau qui fait de border le vase”
― Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne
― Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

“I don’t know if we are doing the right thing,’ he said. ‘But I know that they don’t know either. In my line of work…you would be amazed at how many times the authorities do something without knowing why, without knowing the consequences…only so it will look as if they’re doing something.”
― Handling the Undead
― Handling the Undead
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