Finish the Quote - Take Two
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Beans have been sent.
March's next creative opportunity starts with:
"A light from the window showed ..."
from This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
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"a primitive Bourbon [*] climbing over a stone wall."
from In Search of Lost Roses by Thomas Christopher
Ending up with:
A light from the window showed a primitive Bourbon climbing over a stone wall.
[*] Note: 'Bourbon' is a type, or "class" of rose that appeared before the introduction of the first Hybrid Tea rose in 1867 ('La France'). A Google search "when did Bourbon roses start" has an answer of "Bourbon roses are a group of hybrids originating from a chance cross between a form of 'Autumn Damask' and the 'Old Blush' China rose which occurred in about 1817 on the Île de Bourbon (now Réunion) in the Indian Ocean. When it was introduced to France two years later it was used to produce further hybrids."
March's next creative opportunity starts with:
"A light from the window showed ..."
from This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
Adding
"a primitive Bourbon [*] climbing over a stone wall."
from In Search of Lost Roses by Thomas Christopher
Ending up with:
A light from the window showed a primitive Bourbon climbing over a stone wall.
[*] Note: 'Bourbon' is a type, or "class" of rose that appeared before the introduction of the first Hybrid Tea rose in 1867 ('La France'). A Google search "when did Bourbon roses start" has an answer of "Bourbon roses are a group of hybrids originating from a chance cross between a form of 'Autumn Damask' and the 'Old Blush' China rose which occurred in about 1817 on the Île de Bourbon (now Réunion) in the Indian Ocean. When it was introduced to France two years later it was used to produce further hybrids."
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
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"A light from the window showed, beneath a weeping willow's shade she sat and sang alone."
"A light from the window showed ..."
- From "This Rough Magic" by Mary Stewart
Adding:
"Beneath a weeping willow's shade she sat and sang alone..."
- From "Beneath a Weeping Willow’s Shade" by Francis Hopkinson
Ending up with:
"A light from the window showed, beneath a weeping willow's shade she sat and sang alone."
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
Starting with:
“A light from the window showed ..."
Adding:
“… rising black swirls of water, cars floating by like river bugs”
From: I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
Finishing With:
“A light from the window showed rising black swirls of water, cars floating by like river bugs”
“A light from the window showed ..."
Adding:
“… rising black swirls of water, cars floating by like river bugs”
From: I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows
Finishing With:
“A light from the window showed rising black swirls of water, cars floating by like river bugs”
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
New Quote: “Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone.” — Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Completed Quote:
Completed Quote:
A light from the window showed here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone.
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"A light from the window showed ..."
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"a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin." from Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1), by Robin Hobb.
Ending Up With:
"A light from the window showed a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin."
"A light from the window showed ..."
Adding:
"a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin." from Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1), by Robin Hobb.
Ending Up With:
"A light from the window showed a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin."
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - Albus Dumbledore.
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
Beans are sent!
Next up we have this:
"Well," he answered calmly,..."
from The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
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"I must go."
from The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Ending up with:
"Well, he answered calmly, "I must go."
Next up we have this:
"Well," he answered calmly,..."
from The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
Adding
"I must go."
from The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Ending up with:
"Well, he answered calmly, "I must go."
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"Well," he answered calmly,..."
from The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
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"I am nobody. I have no family, I have no age. I
live only to serve the Purpose."
from Reckless Truth (Truth Saga, #1), by Raven Elliot O'Connor.
Ending up with:
"Well, he answered calmly, "I am nobody. I have no family, I have no age. I
live only to serve the Purpose."
from The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
Adding
"I am nobody. I have no family, I have no age. I
live only to serve the Purpose."
from Reckless Truth (Truth Saga, #1), by Raven Elliot O'Connor.
Ending up with:
"Well, he answered calmly, "I am nobody. I have no family, I have no age. I
live only to serve the Purpose."
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - Albus Dumbledore.
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
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Ending up with:
"Well," he answered calmly, "I am her husband. She needs no charm to hold my interest."
"Well," he answered calmly,..."
- From "The Puppet Masters" by Robert Heinlein
Adding:
"I am her husband. She needs no charm to hold my interest.”
- From "The Star-Touched Queen" by Roshani Chokshi
Ending up with:
"Well," he answered calmly, "I am her husband. She needs no charm to hold my interest."
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
New Quote: “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Completed Quote:
Completed Quote:
”Well," he answered calmly, “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
"Well," he answered calmly,..."
from The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
Adding:
“I think you can sort of slip out of your life and it can be hard to find a way back in.”
—I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Ending up with:
"Well," he answered calmly,"I think you can sort of slip out of your life and it can be hard to find a way back in."
from The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
Adding:
“I think you can sort of slip out of your life and it can be hard to find a way back in.”
—I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Ending up with:
"Well," he answered calmly,"I think you can sort of slip out of your life and it can be hard to find a way back in."
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
Beans have been sent.
Our last offering for March is this:
"Normally we would not recommend..."
from The Southeast Native Plant Primer -- 225 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden by Larry Mellichamp and Paula Gross
Adding
"... selling free and unlimited power."
from Waldo by Robert Heinlein
Resulting in this fine, smashed-up, sentence -
Normally we would not recommend selling free and unlimited power.
Our last offering for March is this:
"Normally we would not recommend..."
from The Southeast Native Plant Primer -- 225 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden by Larry Mellichamp and Paula Gross
Adding
"... selling free and unlimited power."
from Waldo by Robert Heinlein
Resulting in this fine, smashed-up, sentence -
Normally we would not recommend selling free and unlimited power.
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Starting with:
“Normally we would not recommend..."
Adding:
“ running away, cowardly, without even saying goodbye. ”
From: Wendy Darling by A.C. Wise
Ending with:
“ Normally we would not recommend running away, cowardly, without even saying goodbye. ”
“Normally we would not recommend..."
Adding:
“ running away, cowardly, without even saying goodbye. ”
From: Wendy Darling by A.C. Wise
Ending with:
“ Normally we would not recommend running away, cowardly, without even saying goodbye. ”
“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.”
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
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"Normally we would not recommend finding a tin of treacle in Mrs. Smith’s pantry and eating the lot."
"Normally we would not recommend..."
- From "The Southeast Native Plant Primer: 225 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden" by Larry Mellichamp and Paula Gross
Adding:
"...finding a tin of treacle in Mrs. Smith’s pantry and eating the lot."
- From "The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCullough
Ending up with:
"Normally we would not recommend finding a tin of treacle in Mrs. Smith’s pantry and eating the lot."
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
Starting with:
“Normally we would not recommend..."
Adding:
“a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”
From: Innocence, by Dean Koontz.
Ending with:
“Normally we would not recommend a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”
“Normally we would not recommend..."
Adding:
“a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”
From: Innocence, by Dean Koontz.
Ending with:
“Normally we would not recommend a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”
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New Quote: “…the sorcery in him, a sharp pungent mix of cinnamon and pepper and resin of pine, and deep below it burning woodsmoke.” — Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver
Completed Quote:
Completed Quote:
”Normally we would not recommend the sorcery in him, a sharp pungent mix of cinnamon and pepper and resin of pine, and deep below it burning woodsmoke.”
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
Beans are on their way!
April’s first quote is….
Adding
We get….
April’s first quote is….
– The School for Good and Evil, Soman ChainaniIt doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever…
Adding
– Squire, Tamora PierceI'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.
We get….
It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.
"Growing up doesn't have to mean I lose the cape, the faith, the dream. I'm so done with that... I'm taking it back."
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First quote:
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever…"
– The School for Good and Evil, Soman Chainani
Adding:
"Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."
– The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
We get….:
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever…"
– The School for Good and Evil, Soman Chainani
Adding:
"Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."
– The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
We get….:
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'..."
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - Albus Dumbledore.
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
Starting with:
Adding:
Ending up with:
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever, but it irritates you from a towing or sculling point of view, and causes argument between the man who is pulling and the man who is steering."
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever…"
- From "The School for Good and Evil" by Soman Chainani
Adding:
"...but it irritates you from a towing or sculling point of view, and causes argument between the man who is pulling and the man who is steering."
- From "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome
Ending up with:
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever, but it irritates you from a towing or sculling point of view, and causes argument between the man who is pulling and the man who is steering."
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First quote:
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever…"
– The School for Good and Evil, Soman Chainani
Adding:
"No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed."
– Brushstrokes of a Gadfly, E.A. Bucchianeri
We get:
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever, no one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed."
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever…"
– The School for Good and Evil, Soman Chainani
Adding:
"No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed."
– Brushstrokes of a Gadfly, E.A. Bucchianeri
We get:
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever, no one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed."
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Re: Finish the Quote - Take Two
New Quote: “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” — Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
Completed Quote:
Completed Quote:
It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever, there are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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