Osama Afaq Ali Photographerцитирует8 месяцев назад
grown lovingly in the sandy soil by the estuary and as smooth to the touch as sea-scoured beach pebbles. The man who was not moved to eat the jackets of such potatoes was nothing if not a scoundrel.
Francis Sarabiaцитирует5 месяцев назад
ales, in the sickly yellow waistcoat he wore on weekdays, was perched on a high stool behind the bar, reading the racing results to Old Crubog.
Pat Hallцитирует4 месяца назад
Normally, he would not have blamed him for avoiding the latter because the jackets of s
Dishinya Gogoiцитирует5 месяцев назад
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration. —Charles Dickens
Dishinya Gogoiцитирует5 месяцев назад
he peasants knew that a spoiled son did more harm to a family than a dead one,
Dishinya Gogoiцитирует5 месяцев назад
en have choices that women don’t.
Dishinya Gogoiцитирует5 месяцев назад
Whether China capitulated or avenged itself, the weeds would have to be pulled from the vegetable garden, rope sandals would need to be woven if they were to have shoes, and the thieves who tried often to steal their few chickens had to be kept away
Dishinya Gogoiцитирует5 месяцев назад
This was his burden, not hers
Aisha Eliasцитируетв прошлом году
“But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn’t be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn’t be God. There’s more to everything than we can know.”
Beccaцитирует2 года назад
At his father’s insistence, Hoonie learned to read and write Korean and Japanese from the village schoolmaster well enough to keep a boardinghouse ledger and to do sums in his head so he couldn’t be cheated at the market.