'CHARLOTTE QUERYABLE, a vigorous and friendly-looking woman in her mid-sixties, is on an early-morning power walk with her friend REBECCA WINDOWS, an overwhelmed forty-five.'

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'Which means that the killer has to be someone who was in the yogurt shop this afternoon, but who DIDN'T ask for toppings!'

'You can’t possibly believe that a parrot could have changed Diana Holcomb’s will!'

'I'm going to feel a lot safer AFTER we find the missing crossbows.'

Murder Most Noticeable!

CHARLOTTE: Oh, Chief Goshen? There seems to be something you’ve overlooked on the floor...much as you’re overlooking me now.

The SHERIFF and DETECTIVE look at one another, abashed. You should never overlook CHARLOTTE QUERYABLE.

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adore the implication that qatari dark money, or hezbollah, or maybe even sinwar himself, has paid for some teachers to tape print outs in times new roman to the back of easily attainable hi vis vests

the baby is growing EYELASHES and is almost too big for one of his little outfits…what the heck man we just got him

A Defense of Screens, & Devices, by One who Loves & Benefits From Their Use, &c.

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me. because you would be adopted immediately by loving parents. you would have been beloved by all who saw you. fights for custody would have broken out in the asylum that cherished you

now this is my kind of pablum youtu.be/mTKePgJ9r0E?si…

UTILITYLIMB IS BACK

SIR THOMAS: I’m starting to question how we educated our daughters

LADY BERTRAM: I’m sure somebody educated them. Wasn’t there always a woman around, in the attic or somewhere, who knew French?

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the unalloyed joy of playing Civilization 6 while a baby sleeps on you...this must be how Jimmy Buffet felt about getting drunk and going metal detecting on the beach

EDMUND: No, no, it’s fine. I know she didn’t mean it. Every so often Mary says something that seems unkind, but I know it’s just a trick of the light. Aurora borealis, or something
Mansfield Park, Part IV
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HENRY CRAWFORD: She really just suffers beautifully, you know? And a husband can make a woman suffer in so many more interesting ways than an aunt.

EDMUND: No, no, it’s fine. I know she didn’t mean it. Every so often Mary says something that seems unkind, but I know it’s just a trick of the light. Aurora borealis, or something
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