The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.

Life becomes a blessing when you discover your calling

Look at me, " she demanded. He whirled around and held out his arms. "What do you want me to say? Aye. I'm a dragon!

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It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinkin' alone.

O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.

I believe that time wounds all heals. (karma)

Books + friendship = book club

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.