with the complete lack of shame of the extremely deaf and the complete lack of grammar of the extremely inbred.
Lauren WilligOld 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 WilligWhen 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.
Tag: humor way-with-words
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 WilligAbout, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason.
Lauren WilligTag: augustus-whittelsby the-garden-intrigue the-pink-carnation-series
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.
Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?
Lauren WilligMr. 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.
All this rapture,” managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother’s grasp, “is decidedly premature.
Lauren WilligThis 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.
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