Ellen Emerson White · 204 pages
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“I feel rather a fool writing down my thoughts”
“I tried to make each half sandwich last for three full bites, though I could easily have popped them into my mouth whole.”
“Mrs. Carstairs is terribly excited about being aboard this particular ship, as it is the Titanic's maiden voyage, and she is suppose to be the largest ever built.”
“These are hard memories, and I will save the rest of the story for another time.”
“It is my last night here, and I suddenly feel quite tearful, sitting up in my usual window.”
“Here I am, in a lovely hotel room, with my own bathroom. I have never experienced such incredible luxury.”
“Then, all of a sudden, there was a great black hull, stretching farther than my eye could see.”
“I asked her about my Family Allowance today, she laughed and said she used it for buying gin and cigarettes.”
“Wait."
"So what am I supposed to do now?"
"You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey."
(222-223)”
“In the morning, fog. As it slowly lifted, the expedition set off.”
“Any of us who have raised children know, as John F. Kennedy once said, that “to have children is to give hostages to fate.”
“Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.”
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