J.K. Rowling
- The Casual Vacancy
Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the best, had been no more than blind selfishness, generating confusion and mess all around. But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know they all were?
J.K. Rowling
- The Casual Vacancy
She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that peerless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?
J.K. Rowling
- The Casual Vacancy
The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest places, the nape of your neck and your knees, and which denied you the comfort of dreaming, of retreating a little from reality.
J.K. Rowling
- The Casual Vacancy
Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.
J.K. Rowling
- The Casual Vacancy
Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there - the walls and the chairs and the children's pictures on the walls - meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.
J.K. Rowling
- The Casual Vacancy
Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth. He wanted to journey through dark labyrinths and wrestle with the strangeness that lurked within; he wanted to crack open piety and expose hypocrisy; he wanted to break taboos and squeeze wisdom from their bloody hearts; he wanted to achieve a state of amoral grace, and be baptised backwards into ignorance and simplicity.
J.K. Rowling
- The Casual Vacancy
He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.
English Club - most common english words
- Common English Words 434 - 500
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English Club - most common english words
- Common English Words 357 - 434
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- Common English Words 277 - 356
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- Common English Words 193 - 276
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English Club - most common english words
- Common English Words 101 - 192
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English Club - most common english words
- Common English Words 1-100
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Clive Barker
- Abarat - chap' 13 - In the Great Head
Candy had always prided herself upon having a vivid imagination. When, for instance, she privately compared her dreams with those her brothers described over the breakfast table, or her friends at school exchanged at break, she always discovered her own night visions were a lot wilder and weirder than anybody else's. But there was nothing she could remember dreaming - by day or night - that came close to the sight that greeted her in The Great Head of the Yebba Dim Day.
Jasper Fforde
- The Big Over Easy
It was a question that was asked more and more in front of promotion boards and transfer interviews and listed in performance reports. It wasn't enough to be a conscientious and invaluable assistant to one's allotted inspector - you had to be able to write up a readable account for the magazines that the public loved to read. Preferably Amazing Crime Stories, but, failing that, Sleuth Illustrated.
Michael Scott
- The Sorceress
Narrow, pinched nostrils opened wide as the young man sorted through the countless scents in the station. He identified and dismissed the mixed stink of too many humans, the myriad perfumes and deodorants, the gels and pastes, the greasy odor of fried food from the station's restaurants, the richer aroma of coffee and the metallic oily tang of the train engines and carriages. He closed his eyes and tilted his head back.
Oscar Wilde
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
Elvis Presley
- Lonesome Tonight
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me, and I had no cause to doubt you. But I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than go on living without you. Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there with emptiness all around, and if you won't come back to me, then they can bring the curtain down. Is your heart filled with pain? Shall I come back again? Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight?
JR Eweing
- Forgive & Forget
Don't forgive and never forget; do unto others before they do unto you; and third and most importantly, keep your eye on your friends because your enemies will take care of themselves.
