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This will be a thread of all the books I've read this year.
Yes, thought Montag, that's the one I'll save for noon. For noon....
When we reach the city.
When we reach the city.
Land of our Birth, our faith, our pride,
For whose dear sake our fathers died;
O Motherland, we pledge to thee
Head, heart and hand through the years to be!
For whose dear sake our fathers died;
O Motherland, we pledge to thee
Head, heart and hand through the years to be!
He looks at me for a moment, a moment passing. And he nods. And I nod. And then I reach into my pocket for Janie's rock, and stare at it. Maybe I'll give it to Piper. I no longer need the reminder. There is nothing left to remember.
I am not afraid.
I am not afraid.
"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would there when Jem waked up in the morning.
He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would there when Jem waked up in the morning.
P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.
Leaning against a tree not fifty yards away, Bruce Cable watched the exchange and enjoyed a good laugh.
They stand there in that tight, bizarre circle, all thinking the same thing.
If she's determined to pull through this, she will.
If she's determined to pull through this, she will.
...and in the morning, for a moment or two, I am unaware of anything at all except how it feels to be awake again. Then I reach for my phone, flick my fingers this way and that, tap the screen.
1 new email, my phone reads. Emma St. Croix, it elaborates.
What a world, I think.
1 new email, my phone reads. Emma St. Croix, it elaborates.
What a world, I think.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education.
I call it an education.
... how to start writing about something that was important to me. And I finally began like this: When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the mkvie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home...
"It's a good story," he said. He even grinned at me. "I'll tell you."
"Please," I said.
And then he did.
"Please," I said.
And then he did.
... but I can be the new me. A girl who, despite the buzzing of angry thoughts in her head, slaps on a smile and trudges forward, always forward. It will never be easy. It will never be clean and simple. It's going to be a fight. Just like boxing. And I'm determined to win.
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
As night fell, Tate walked back toward the shack. But when he reached the lagoon, he stopped under the deep canopy and watched hundreds of fireflies beckoning far into the dark reaches of the marsh. Way out yonder, where the crawdads sing.
The truth about it is, whether we rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless - just workin our way toward home.
..., in his home, by a window in his study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink flowers. The class met on Tuesdays. No books were required. The subject was the meaning of life. It was taught from experience.
The teaching goes on.
The teaching goes on.
