with the complete lack of shame of the extremely deaf and the complete lack of grammar of the extremely inbred.

Lauren Willig


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Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Lauren Willig

Stichwörter: history old-books



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When they arrived at Parva Magna, everyone agreed that it was quite a good thing that
the newly married couple had managed to find shelter in the storm, although there was some
confusion as to why it had taken them a full three days to make their way fifteen miles.

Lauren Willig

Stichwörter: humor way-with-words



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The leaves do fad and fall away, / Berries rot and sheaves decay; / The deer is fled back to the field. / That is all your promises yield. / All wind and words, your vows, I see, / Are barren as the fruitless tree.

Lauren Willig


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About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason.

Lauren Willig

Stichwörter: augustus-whittelsby the-garden-intrigue the-pink-carnation-series



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Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know...' he began.
I knew many things, but I didn't think he needed to hear the entirety of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales right at just this moment.

Lauren Willig


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Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

Lauren Willig


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Mr. Alsworthy!” exclaimed Letty’s mother. “How can you laugh at such a matter! Although, I must say, I would have thought if a pirate were to kidnap anyone, he would kidnap Mary. She looks quite as I did in my youth, and I’m sure a pirate would have wanted to kidnap me.”

“Don’t taunt me with lost opportunities, my dear.

Lauren Willig


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All this rapture,” managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother’s grasp, “is decidedly premature.

Lauren Willig


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This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.

Lauren Willig

Stichwörter: poetry desire



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