"We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head."

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Source : Carolyn Keene (1980). “Nancy Drew 05: The Secret of Shadow Ranch”, p.22, Penguin

Carolyn Keene

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“I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.”
“Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.”
“There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.”
“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
“Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.”
“Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman”
“Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.”
“My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.”

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