Some quotes from books i have read recently.
When they'd first started holding hands and kissing, he was aware that a man of the world might have said, "No, my affections will not become your playthings," but he was not a man of the world, he was a man of Leeds Central Library who'd rather have his affections used as playthings than have them ignored.
I don't think they could have had sapphism in Leeds when I was growing up. If Leeds women had known it as an option, I can't see they'd have bothered with men at all.
At the City Palace of Varieties, they threw sharpened pennies at comics who told jokes like that... Most people in The Pack Horse on Briggate could be funnier on a wet Sunday morning when there'd just been a death in the family.
Raybourn, Deanna. "The dark Road to Darjeeling." :-
Mark Twain :-
Alan Bradley.
"Thrice the branded cat hath mew'd" :-
Alan Bradley. "Golden tresses of the dead." :-
O-A-T-S. Oats. Means 'obfuscation and torrents of ' well I mustn't say, must I.
Something that I will never forget until my dying day - if I live that long.
Alan Bradley. "The grave's a fine and private place." :-
The spell for finding books.."Abracadabra, Alakazam, Angela Thirkell and Omar Khayyam."
I was the eighth dwarf. Sneaky.