KW Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 "Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsgood Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 If you want a guiding metaphor for Opus Dei, the spiritual organization founded in Spain in 1928 by Saint JoseMaria Escriva that has become the most controversial force in Roman Catholicism, think of it as the Guiness Extra Stout of the Catholic Church. It's a strong brew, definitely and acquired taste, and clearly not for everyone. Opening two lines from the introduction of Opus Dei, by John L. Allen, Jr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceinwenn Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 "When you're sitting at home flicking through the bunch of holiday brochures you picked up from your local high street travel agent, you never really think to yourself: "This will be the holiday that will change my life", do you?" - Wish you were here, by Mike Gayle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergran71 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 "I'm going to make her tell us today" Forbidden Places - Penny Vincenzi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Severnlad Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 "There we are my dear." The midwife leaned over to receive the baby from the doctor Water Gypsies - Annie Murray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rach.at.the.disco Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 "The light hadn't even officially turned green at the intersection of 17th and Broadway before an army of overconfident yellow cabs roared past the tiny deathtrap I was attempting to navigate around the city streets." The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie2008 Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 "The light hadn't even officially turned green at the intersection of 17th and Broadway before an army of overconfident yellow cabs roared past the tiny deathtrap I was attempting to navigate around the city streets." The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger. I read that a few months ago. I loved the film but could not get into the book. I should have done it the other way around and saw the film second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukeozade100 Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 ' My house stands at the edge of the earth'. 'The Birth House' by Ami McKay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bella Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower-block ? A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 In winter Hammerfest is a thirty-hour ride by bus from Oslo, though why anyone would want to go there in winter is a question worth considering. Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 My milk tarted leaking about thirty seconnds after I reslised my baby had been stolen. Blood Ties~Sam Hayes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 "On a sweltering afternoon in early June, Celia Fox stands at the railing of her deck and smokes the second-to-last cigarette she'll allow herself before going to work." Helpless: Barbara Gowdy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 'Well, look what the cat dragged in,' Marla Simms bellowed, giving Sara a pointed look over her silver-rimmed bifocals. Indelible by Karin Slaughter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 My milk tarted leaking about thirty seconnds after I reslised my baby had been stolen. Blood Ties~Sam Hayes I recognise that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 "On a sweltering afternoon in early June, Celia Fox stands at the railing of her deck and smokes the second-to-last cigarette she'll allow herself before going to work." Helpless: Barbara Gowdy Recognise that one too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukeozade100 Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 (edited) They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was plainly impossible. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Edited September 28, 2008 by Lukeozade100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursenblack Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 "I'd had more than my fair share of near-death experiences; it wasn't something you ever really got used to." Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukeozade100 Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 3 may. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.49, but train was an hour late. Dracula by Bram Stoker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bella Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 I was sitting in class, in my final year of high school, when I finally came out. The Tragedy Of Miss Geneva Flowers - Joe Babcock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head." John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beef Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 The last day of the cruelest month, and appropriately, it rains. The Silver Bear - Derek Haas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie2008 Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 "This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain". Green Mile by Stephen King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 'Outside, the technicolor sunset is giving way to the silvery sweep of searchlights over distant Cardiff as a hand tugs the blackout curtain across the sky.' 'The Welsh Girl' by Peter Ho Davies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo-Bridge Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 The truth is that I have never been the mastermind of anything Empress Orchid-Anchee Min Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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