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Sentence of the Day:

Frankenstein; Mary Shelley
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If The Weather Network was at all useful, today's precipitation forecast would have been: "Everything randomly."
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Sentence of the Day:

Frankenstein; Mary Shelly.
#booksky
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Sentence of the Day:

In fear I turned to my poor Madam Mina, and my heart with gladness leapt like flame; for oh! the terror in her sweet eyes, the repulsion, the horror, told a story to my heart that was all of hope.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Sentence of the Day:

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Fox News tried coming after Denmark's social safety net. This Danish politician's legendary fact check is great! #cdnpoli
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Sentence of the Day:

"I promise!" and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Sentence of the Day:

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Sentence of the Day:

I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many; just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Women who put themselves through this, with visible trauma, don’t do this for themselves, they do it for all girls and women who may continue to be victims of a system that grants impunity to predators. Do not fail them, demand accountability, and don’t stop.

Thank you to each one of them.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Sentence of the Day:

After the involuntary shrinking consequent on the first nauseous whiff, we one and all set about our work as though that loathsome place were a garden of roses.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I'm thinking of changing my legal name to Likely Fraud.
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
What does it say about you when a convicted orchestrator of an international sex trafficking ring says you’re one of the worst people he knows?
#epsteinfiles
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Sentence of the Day:

True that there were there, as we had seen them in life, the traces of care and pain and waste; but these were all dear to us, for they marked her truth to what we knew.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Sentence of the Day:

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue?’

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Sentence of the Day:

I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Sentence of the Day:

He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part—in which he was officially interested—of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Sentence of the Day:

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us; a personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Sentence of the Day:

He is a seemingly arbitrary man, but this is because he knows what he is talking about better than any one else.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Sentence of the Day:

The whole agglomeration of things-the ship steered into port by a dead man; his attitude, tied to the wheel with a crucifix and beads; the touching funeral; the dog, now furious and now in terror-will all afford material for her dreams.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Sentence of the Day:

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Sentence of the Day:

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Sentence of the Day:

It is odd that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as idolatrous should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
#booksky
November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Sentence of the Day:

I am writing up this part of the diary whilst I am waiting for the coach, which is, of course, late; and the crucifix is still round my neck.

Dracula; Bram Stoker.
# booksky
November 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Sentence of the Day:
In this case, as always after completion, two sentences, the first and last together.

When trouble comes to town, it usually takes the North Shore Line.
Best pals always,
Skeet

Thomas Pynchon; Shadow Ticket.
# booksky
October 31, 2025 at 11:43 AM