Isa
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Post by Isa on Aug 31, 2007 16:56:43 GMT -5
"If only Nikolai hadn't so ardently believed in divine rule"
- The Kitchen Boy
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Post by Carma on Sept 24, 2007 6:58:18 GMT -5
"It says that the effect of drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams.
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Post by Hanna on Sept 26, 2007 1:49:33 GMT -5
"As for Mr. Sedley's jokes, Rebecca laughed at them with a cordiality and perseverance which not a little pleased and softened that goodnatured gentleman."
Vanity Fair
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Michelle
First novel published
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Post by Michelle on Sept 26, 2007 7:46:03 GMT -5
My page 23 in Big Bang is a diagram of the universe, so there is no sentence 5
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oureternity
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
bam.
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Post by oureternity on Sept 26, 2007 15:30:40 GMT -5
"Your daddy Mr. Walter Cunningham from Old Sarum?" he asked, and Walter nodded.
To Kill a Mockingbird. (Had to read it for English class).
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Sept 27, 2007 12:20:46 GMT -5
"Have never messaged Daniel Cleaver before but brilliant thing about messaging system is you can be really quite cheeky and informal, even to your boss."
from Bridget Jones's Diary
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Sept 27, 2007 13:56:06 GMT -5
Undifferentiated highland climates have a range of conditions according to elevation and exposure to wind and sun."
-Essentials of World Regional Geography (school textbook)
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Post by Pilleriin on Sept 29, 2007 15:55:25 GMT -5
"Raskused elus on selleks, et neist üle saada, eks me tea seda ju kõik."
from my Estonian textbook.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
Posts: 7,214
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Post by Kristie on Sept 30, 2007 15:14:21 GMT -5
"That's how she became Um Nuwayyir rather than Um Nuri, and she stayed Um Nuwayyir even after moving to the house next to Sadeem's, four years before the date on which Waleed presented himself as a suitable match for Sadeem, and after Nuri rejected his mother's suggestion that they move to Kuwait."
-Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea (almost as long as an Austen sentence)
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Nathalie
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by Nathalie on Oct 2, 2007 4:31:06 GMT -5
En una casa pequeña hay ________ habitaciones ________ en un palacio.
Spanish Grammar Workbook
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Post by Hanna on Oct 9, 2007 12:20:19 GMT -5
"About two o'clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemes to have no end." Frankenstein
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
Posts: 7,214
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Post by Kristie on Oct 9, 2007 12:28:53 GMT -5
"A dress rehearsal for my teenage life." ~The Secret of Hurricanes (written by my English Lit professor)
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Brunella
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by Brunella on Oct 13, 2007 19:33:08 GMT -5
"I could only see the sparkle of a couple of very bright and red eyes, in the moment they turned to us" Dracula by Bram Stoker
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
ancora imparo
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Oct 14, 2007 8:24:09 GMT -5
"When I read that passage, I shivered with a combination of sympathetic hypothermia and passionate recognition."
-Anne Fadiman, from Ex Libris
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girlfriday
First poem written for Mother’s Day
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Post by girlfriday on Oct 18, 2007 11:25:32 GMT -5
"Her answer had been devastating: "Because the only difference I ever saw between you and Achilles was that you let others do your killing for you."
Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card
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