When Zarathustra was thirty years old he left his home and the lake of his home and went into the mountains.
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Not every 13-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty.
— Avi, amazon.com
If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
She's really, really rich. Besides I love her.
East of my home, the long ridge lies across the skyline like the low hull of a submarine.
At five-forty-five in the morning, Paul and I rousted ourselves from our warm bunk and peered out of the small porthole in our cabin aboard the SS America.
Long before the first bugles sounded from the barracks within the city and the cantonments surrounding it, most of the people in the city were already awake.
Behind the smokehouse that summer, Ringo and I had a living map.
The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight.
Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town.
On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who later was to be the cause of a sensation in New York, awoke much too early for her night before.
Shortly after dawn, or what would have been dawn in a normal sky, Mr. Artur Sammler with his bushy eye took in the books and papers of his West Side bedroom and suspected strongly that they were the wrong books, the wrong papers.
The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.
It is nine-fifteen on this hot September morn, hotter than any summer day we had.
'Do you really think we can get away with it?'
Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.
The automatic doors at Austin International Airport whoosh open, ejecting me into a bright, sunny afternoon.
In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times.
The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.
Nurse Thorton dropped into the long-term-care ward a little before eight with a hot bag of blood for Charlie Manx.