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My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?


Gwenn Wright


#dark #family-saga #gothic #gwenn-wright #mystery

All I know is that the fear I have been battling all night is breaking down the door of my ignorance. As my feet slam down I feel not the hard, wet asphalt but the soft Persian rug that led to the staircase in my father’s home. In the glow of lightning the dancing trees are illuminated but I see my mother in the glow of candlelight, spinning, twirling, her hair fanned out behind her. It is falling over me, saturating my thoughts, and I cannot. I cannot let it in.


Gwenn Wright


#dance #gwenn-wright #midwest #mystery #saga

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.


Florence Griffith Joyner


#hair #heels #her #high #high heels

I've been stocking my nuts away like a squirrel for 15 years. I don't have kids, I don't have a wife. I own my own house. I don't owe anybody for it so I put my nuts away. I really made a commitment to myself to just do what I like to do and want to do, and not to do anything. I'm not even going to give six weeks away for money anymore, you know?


John Corbett


#anymore #anything #away #been #commitment

A smile is hidden beneath the mustache, it crinkles the corners of his hooded eyes. “I didn’t. I have other business in town and I told my friend I would attend to the matter of his son, as he could not do so himself.” “Very kind of you.” “Yes. I have been looking forward to it for quite some time.” Daddy’s lemonade is almost gone, he sips it carefully, turning his eyes back to the water. “Looking forward to seeing the lad or to conducting your business?” Daddy is toying with him. “Both. You see, I had never actually met his son.” The glass rests against Daddy’s lips, unmoving. Mr. Geyer watches him closely. “But now I have, so I can get on with my,” he fixes his own gaze on the water, as though trying to see whatever it is that has transfixed my father, “business.


Gwenn Wright


#detective #geyer #gwenn-wright #historical-fiction #mystery

She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way of saying it is a school for ugly girls who cannot find suitable husbands. To tease her, for I believe it is one of his greatest pleasures in this life, my father bought a pair of blue silk stockings for me the day we received my letter of acceptance. That evening and the next, father and I dined alone.


Gwenn Wright


#chick-lit #gender-studies #gothic-romance #historical-fiction #powerful-women

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.


Alfred E. Smith


#christmas #claus #empty #fireplace #going

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?


Gwenn Wright


#death #grief #historical-fiction #loss #love

Strip him of equipage and fortune, and such things as only dazzle our eyes and imaginations, but don't in any measure affect our reason or cause a reverence in our hearts, and the poor creature sinks beneath our notice, because not supported by real worth.


Mary Astell


#imagination

I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!


Nia Vardalos


#fishnet #i #i do #inner #out






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