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“You have the most lovely skin,” Finn told her. “Like mahogany. Like the finest river loam. Could I touch it?” “You are touching it, Casanova,” Rita answered, eyes on the blood pressure dial. “Behave.” “Casanova?” Finn shot Diego a questioning glance. “Famous lover.” “Ah. A compliment?” “Sarcasm.” Please don’t make me explain sarcasm. “Typical.” Apparently, it wouldn’t be necessary.”

Sarcasm Compliment Typical Casanova Mahogany

Book:Finn

Source: Finn

“The Lacandones have a prophecy that the world will be destroyed when the last mahogany tree is gone. The mahogany is the 'indicator species' for the rain forest; its health or death is indicative of the health or death of the entire ecosystem. The smoke from the burning of tropical rain forests can already be seen from satellites miles above Earth. The indigenous people of the true, original First World are preparing themselves for the final struggle. Many have nothing left to lose, only the remaining trees and land, and their children, to fight for. As the Zapatistas declared: 'We are the dead, rising to die again so our people can live once more.”

Struggle Environment Survival Activism Resistance Prophecy Climate Crisis Indigenous Rights Mahogany Zapatista

Book:Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth

Source: Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth

“The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.”

Men Gentleman Fashionable Veneer Mahogany

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.”

Source: The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

“My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.”

Made Poetry House Poet Chairs Verses Spares Craftsman Mahogany

Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky

“I like to have a spray bottle filled with apple juice to spray onto my meat. Whether it's pork, chicken, or beef, it adds flavor. Also, it helps keep your meat a real golden mahogany-looking color and prevents it from turning black.”

Real Helping Black Color Filled Add Golden Meat Apples Chickens Bottles Flavor Juice Beef Spray Pork Mahogany

Author:Johnny Trigg

“Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.”

Men Mind Wells Said Hands Easy Simple Surprise Fingers Desks Tapping Plumbing Mahogany

Book:The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.”

Years Looks Book Ideas Stories Dream Earth Lasts Honest Promise Paper Weight Bounds Thrones Oaks Last Day Glue Clumsy Breadth Arranging Rearranging Mahogany

Author:Rick Bragg

“What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?”

World Dies Lost Voice Horse Corners Bars Desks Pathetic Frail Drawers Vacant Sulfur Mahogany

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Well,” Waxillium said. “Perhaps I should begin by asking after your health.” “Perhaps you should,” Steris replied. “Er. Yes. How’s your health?” “Suitable.” “So is Waxillium,” Wayne added. They all turned to him. “You know,” he said. “He’s wearing a suit, and all. Suitable. Ahem. Is that mahogany?”

Knows Should Wells Said Asking Suits Suitable Wayne Wearing A Suit Mahogany

Book:Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series: (Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning)

Source: Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series: (Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning)

“Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control concussion match with opponents catapulting croutons and petits pois across the mahogany, don't fight it, go with it. And when you have the desire to quell the uprising approach the original perpetrator from behind. There, slowly crown her with the contents of the fresh fruit salad bowl. But be warned. Although this immobilizes and rivits everyone's attention it also gives them new ideas.”

“Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.”

Love Success Share Success In Life Deep Thought One You Love Someone You Love Mahogany

Author:Billy Dee Williams

“Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?”

World Should Construction Apology Should I Apologizing Crystals I Apologize Chandeliers Mahogany

Author:Jim Bakker

“The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.”

Source: The Secret History

“President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.”