Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.
Karen Joy Fowler
There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.
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Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.
funny austen humour
music song bird
I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.
poetry poem breaking-up
A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.
truth
Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.
motherhood children
The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance.... They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil.... And the Indians put a great deal of faith in dreams.
dreams
Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.
story
He envied the bark, which had been, in the course of one lifetime, both forest and fire. One endured; one destroyed.
fire forest
Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
immortality trees
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.
madness june january
Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
manners punctuality
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.
librarians
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