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It was then that I sprang my surprise. Oh, what a dreamy pet! She walked up to the open suitcase as if stalking it from afar, at a kind of slow-motion walk, peering at that distant treasure box on the luggage support. (Was there something wrong, I wondered, with those great gray eyes of hers, or were we both plunged in the same enchanted mist?) She stepped up to it, lifting her rather high-heeled feet rather high, and bending her beautiful boy-knees while she walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water or in a flight dream.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.’ –

He had poor eyesight and chronic sinus trouble, which made war especially exciting for him, since he was in no danger of going overseas.

I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

A veces hago cosas de persona mayor, en serio, pero de eso nadie se da cuenta. La gente nunca se da cuenta de nada.

This is a fault incident to all those who presume to translate books of verse into another language. For, however much care they take and however much ability they employ, they can never equal the quality of the original.

The elms and the poplars were turning their ruffled backs to a sudden onslaught of wind, and a black thunderhead loomed above Ramsdale's white church tower when I looked around me for the last time.

Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies. But

A movie about the past is not the same as the past.

Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you're going yo start getting closer and closer- that is, if you want to, and if you look for it and wait for it- to the kind of information that will be very, very dear to your heart. Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

She groped for words. I supplied them mentally ('He broke my heart. You merely broke my life').

Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.

They don’t usually drink on Sunday, they go to church most of the day .

Mostly, I'd just like to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time.

The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains.

As long as this exists,' I thought, 'and I may live to see it, this sunshine. the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy.

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just

There was no doubt about it, I must soon enter this world, where on its surface fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently, and drank cool water.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher,