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Islesboro, in a town called Dark Harbor.

They're all staying at the Casa Marina, the old hotel built by Henry Flagler, the railroad guy who built the Breakers in Palm Beach

It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike.

I don't know much about the Presbyterian faith, but the atmosphere alone was enough to put me off predestination.

Shitting on a mouse is not expressly forbidden under California law.

Good news for me, although even in Texas I don't think impersonating a maid would be classified as a crime.

As Aristotle said, "What a society honors will be cultivated." It is time for us to understand, honor, and cultivate the deepest relational elements in our nature.

The emotions do not deserve being put into opposition with "intelligence." The emotions are themselves a higher order of intelligence. —O. Hobart Mowrer

Her name was Mary, and there ends any resemblance to the mother of our Lord.

The birth of a daughter is a loss. Better is the wickedness of a man than a woman who does good.

long aprons with starch. Off in the drawing room, it sounded like bees buzzing. Missus showed

A man's holy of holies contains God's laws, but inside women there are only longings.

can't explain this to myself. I only feel in intuitive, indeterminate ways that she will have a part in whatever renaissance might lie in my aging, perhaps opening me to the deeper

It can only germinate naturally out of my experience . . . or not.

Her father had thought it too much to throw in the faces of clients who needed a gentle introduction to the prospect of female representation.

The greatest sorrow, said Dante, was to recall in misery the time when we were happy. The sadness of a lost happy time.

However, this translation is, in the words of Dr. Giles, excessively bad. He goes further in this criticism: It is not merely a question of downright blunders, from which none can hope to be wholly exempt.

What's the difference between ignorance & arrogance? I don't know & I don't care.

The human brain is the most unsuccessful adaptation ever to appear in the history of life on earth," whale scientist Roger Payne once suggested.

as well as 10,000 traffic fatalities a year caused by drinking.

I had been right, this was just the sort of place where superstition and tittle-tattle were rife, and even allowed to hold sway over commonsense. Now

It's been a pretty tough day, he said. No sense making it worse with a salad.

The big barbarian called sexual assault training?

do that to a future hero?" She