Excerpt from page 3 of "Wicked Washington"
Shelly Williams, the main character, speaking about her life:
And close and dangerous calls were almost my last name. Yet I felt as comfortable among the street hustlers, junkies, thieves, and criminals of D.C. as I did dining with my
white-collar, college-pedigreed friends over filet mignon, Maine lobster, and strawberry cheesecake at LaMermaid
Seafood Restaurant.
Tag: mystery washington-dc chick-lit
The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine,' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure about.
Richard FliegelTag: mystery series bronx character-comedy
With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments.
With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great experience.
With great battles come great victories; great trees come with great tap roots.
However, if a little faith can move great mountains, what then will a great faith do? Mysterious things... I guess
Tag: age experience power faith victory action responsibility actions mystery old-age reasoning mountains tree abilities mysterious battles responsibilities ability root big assignment much great-power big-dreams capabilities assignments geat-actions great-battles great-experience great-faith great-gifts great-great-things-great-things great-tap-roots great-trees great-victory little-faith move-mountains tap-roots to-whom-much-is-given
Out from behind the desk where he’d been sitting, hidden by the piles of books, appeared a bespectacled, green-eyed man in a green plaid suit. His thick white hair was shaggy and mussed, his nose was rather large and lumpy like a vegetable, and although it was clear he had recently shaved, he appeared to have done so without benefit of a mirror, for here and there upon his neck and chin were nicks from a razor, and occasional white whiskers that he’d missed altogether. This was Mr. Benedict.
Trenton Lee StewartTag: mystery mysterious-benedict-society man-of-mystery mr-benedict
The mystery of desire was way beyond the conceptual abilities of Jules Jacobson. It was like ... robotics. Just another subject that she couldn’t understand at all.
Meg WolitzerI have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like!
Harold AlvinTag: mystery
Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, "You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!"
Falconer lifted one corner of his mouth, "Then I have succeeded, Blunt.
Tag: mystery blunt informant arcrean-conquest falconer isle-of-arcrea
What you believe determines the way you feel and act... but it doesn't change the truth.
Steve HoltTag: fiction science-fiction mystery
Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.
Peter RollinsI also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last. But I gave it up.
Sylvia PlathTag: solitude alone mystery new-york magnificence
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