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“Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull no one would read them.”

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In this narrative, Emily, a spirited and determined protagonist, faces the physical and emotional trials of scaling a formidable mountain. The story explores themes of personal growth, resilience, and the pursuit of one's dreams. more

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“I didn't ask to see you. You sent for me. I don't mind your ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of a Scotch bottle. I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.”

Legs Manners Snark

Book:the big sleep

Source: the big sleep

“She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death.”

Death Manners Spectacle Acceptability Mores

Book:The Accidental

Source: The Accidental

“Now, Faith dear…” “Yes, cousin?” “Of course, you look absolutely ravishing, but perhaps no mention of rocks right away?” “Not a single sedimentary sequence shall pass my lips, I promise.” Faith attempted to look grave. “I don’t know what that means, dear, but thank you.”

Rocks Manners

Book:How to Marry a Werewolf

Source: How to Marry a Werewolf

“I love you." lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back. It's time. I feel it, I know it. My eyes on him, his on me, and both of us breathing, watching, tired of of waiting. Ky close his eyes, but mine are still open. what will it feel like, his lips on mine? Like a secret told, a promise kept? Like that line in the poem-a shower of all my days- silvery rain falling all around me, where the lighting meets the earth? The whistle blows below us and the moment breaks. We are safe. For now.”

Love Kissing

Book:Matched

Source: Matched

“She had once heard an enthusiastic musician, out of patience with a gifted bungler, declare that a fine voice is really an obstacle to singing properly; and it occurred to her that it might perhaps be equally true that a beautiful face is an obstacle to the acquisition of charming manners.”

Beauty Singing Manners Charm

Author:Henry James

“But also be careful to not hit with words, For sometimes that hurts worse each time it occurs.”

Manners Bullying Superhero

Book:Manner-Man

Source: Manner-Man

“In today's youth, morals and manners are replaced by money and mischiefs.”

Young Values Money Youth Manners Morals Mischief Generation Social Media Teenagers

Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“I should add, however, by way of justification of French politeness, that our fellow-countrymen are, when travelling, models of good manners in comparison with the abominable English, who seem to have been brought up in a stable, so careful are they not to discommode themselves in any way, while they always discommode their neighbors.”

Manners English Travellers French Travellers The Impolite Sex

Book:Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

Source: Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

“He wondered if they knew fear, and thought that maybe if they didn’t, he could teach them it, like he’d taught manners to the foul-tongued and the red-handed.”

Justice Teaching Science Fiction Western Manners Badass Gunslinger Old West Coilhunter Bounty Hunter

Book:Rustkiller

Source: Rustkiller

“I reach into the abyss and find my manners.”

Manners Civility Adulting

Book:Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

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