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Valerian

#175
March 10, 2013, 07:15:08 PM
The window therefore remained closed and Rita forgot about it.

The New Girl Friend and Other Stories of Suspense, by Ruth Rendell
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE
For the curious

bubby

#176
March 10, 2013, 08:10:34 PM
' As I walked away, Swan whispered, " How the hell does she know all that? And is she really a she?" '

Water Sleeps, by Glen Cook.

Lilias

#177
March 11, 2013, 08:59:30 AM
'I was good at footy, and Dad pushed me, so I went along with it... until Southampton dropped me from the youth squad.'
--Cathy Cassidy, Bittersweet
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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avorae

#178
March 12, 2013, 08:01:08 PM
The owner converts to a religion that abhors slavery and sets all slaves free along with a small cash payment (2D10 coins of the realm).

[central castings: Heroes of Legend]
Life is a hard game but the rewards are sweet if you know where to look.

Lilias

#179
March 13, 2013, 06:46:25 AM
'I had no idea how much time had passed since they'd knocked us out and bundled us into the back of a delivery van.'
--Anthony Horowitz, Two of Diamonds
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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Valerian

#180
March 13, 2013, 08:12:37 AM
He treated the survivors of a particularly brutal outbreak in a local mine, the Killingworth Colliery.

~The Ghost Map, Stephen Johnson
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE
For the curious

Snapespersephone

#181
March 13, 2013, 10:34:44 PM
Anomen Delryn [Lawful neutral, Human male, fighter/cleric] is a member of a noble family in Athlatla, although he joined the Most Noble Order of the Radiant Heart without the benefit of his father's permission nor patronage.
~Baldur's Gate II Shadows of Amn Game Manual
(yea that is the closets book to me that was not the phone book
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There is something wrong in life when my most dominate side is my muse, and she doesn't listen to me. She skips around doing her own thing and ignoring me.

CupidCatt

#182
March 14, 2013, 01:49:16 AM
"You tell me more than I knew, Manag Iss." - M. Moorcock, Fortress of the Pearl

Lilias

#183
March 14, 2013, 12:03:19 PM
'They are such pretty flowers, I grow them in my cutting garden.'
--Maryrose Wood, The Poison Diaries
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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guardtherealm

#184
March 14, 2013, 03:50:56 PM
"The French, who had once owned Louisiana and whose people (French Canadians) were the only white men to have much experience in Louisiana, were considering reasserting their position."
Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage; Meriweather Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West.

Lilias

#185
March 15, 2013, 05:40:43 AM
'She said why kill it in spring when we had made it through the winter, and was I a simpleton?'
--Susan Fletcher, Witch Light
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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Snapespersephone

#186
March 15, 2013, 11:49:13 AM
How can we fulfill his Law of Love?
-Ten Commandments Twice Removed
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There is something wrong in life when my most dominate side is my muse, and she doesn't listen to me. She skips around doing her own thing and ignoring me.

Lilias

#187
March 16, 2013, 06:28:02 AM
'Go over Wu's accounting of their food supply, to see if that penurious devil was squirreling away a percentage of the food money again.'
--Cathy Cash Spellman, Paint the Wind
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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avorae

#188
March 16, 2013, 10:35:15 AM
Drow (evil subterranean elves) often take up wizardry, but wizards are quite rare among the salvage humanoids.

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Lilias

#189
March 17, 2013, 07:08:43 AM
'So it is absolutely normal for algae to grow in bird baths, which are just another pond habitat for them.'
--Does Anything Eat Wasps?
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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DeadCell

#190
March 23, 2013, 11:40:15 PM
It snapped all of the trees off at three to six feet above the ground everywhere up to 1720 feet high around the bay.

Listverse Ultimate book of Bizarre Lists.
Sentence is about the 1958's Lituya Bay Megatsunami in the chapter of "Most Terrifying Natural Disasters"
-Jamie Frater.

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What is the colour of night?

Observing Trifles

#191
March 24, 2013, 03:33:43 AM
Den Teig abdecken und so lange gehen lassen, bis er sein Volumen etwa verdoppelt hat.
"Cover the dough and leave it to rise until it has doubled in volume."

It's an onion cake recipe from a Swabian cookbook... >>
|| the hunt ||

if it all burns down,
and the flames devour everything that we are,
i will hold you for the minute it takes.
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DeadCell

#192
March 24, 2013, 08:52:13 AM
And forth In order came the grand infernal peers.
Milton's Paradise Lost

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Lilias

#193
March 25, 2013, 06:54:28 AM
'What causes cells to stick together in the human body rather than simply fall apart?'
--Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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Valerian

#194
March 25, 2013, 09:18:22 AM
"There is one in the dressing-up box."

~Double Sin and Other Stories, by Agatha Christie
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE
For the curious

Oniya

#195
March 25, 2013, 09:50:52 AM
The two of them had become enmeshed in the light of each other's eyes, making conversation dull - mere words useless.

The Things That Are Not There by C.J. Henderson.
"Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women.~*~*~Don't think it's all been done before
And in that endeavor, laziness will not do." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think we're never gonna win this war
Robin Williams-Dead Poets Society ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think your world's gonna fall apart
I do have a cause, though.  It's obscenity.  I'm for it.  - Tom Lehrer~*~All you need is your beautiful heart
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Sasquatch421

#196
March 25, 2013, 10:32:42 AM
"Welcome to Mountain Home," Aren told them.
Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Lilias

#197
March 25, 2013, 05:01:38 PM
'Having a relatively modest DH means that in cold tissue the oxygen affinity of haemoglobin does not become so high that the oxygen cannot dissociate from it.'
--Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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ashesandcinder

#198
March 27, 2013, 09:14:29 AM
"I don't want to go to school!" Calvin

The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes -- a Calvin and Hobbes Treasury by Bill Watterson
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Once I can find the time to create a proper graphic, this place shall be filled with favorites of mine. Until then, feel free to assume that I am boring ;)

FeBurns

#199
March 27, 2013, 09:50:44 AM
...moved that last small distance and closed over his hard...

Susan Johnson's Wicked
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