“If this had been France, and the Queen had been Louis XIV, it would have been done by now-but it was England, Parliament had its knobby fingers around the Monarch’s throat, and Whigs and Tories were joined in an eternal shin-kicking contest to determine which faction should have the honor of throttling her Majesty, and how hard.”
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“your ears are too small for some things”
“his tears came way before any words”
“I think that the only thing keeping my grandma and ol' man Coles apart is their skin color”
“the kind of mud that pulls your shoes off”
“If food or music ain't helping none then you know something must be really wrong”
“Her music drawer looked like a rainbow”