Finish the Quote - Take Two

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

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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."

[Dibyarup James Potter]

Starting with:

"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."

[Emily Spencer]

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”

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

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:

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.

[Hiya Debnath]

Starting with:
"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."

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Beans are sent!

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."

[Hiya Debnath]

"Well," he answered calmly,..."
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."

[Dibyarup James Potter]

Starting with:

"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."

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

New Quote: “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Completed Quote:

”Well," he answered calmly, “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

[Amy Smith]

"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."

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

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.

[Emily Spencer]

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. ”

[Dibyarup James Potter]

Starting with:

"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."

[Hiya Debnath]

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.”

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

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:

”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.”

[Prof. Sky Alton]

Beans are on their way!

April’s first quote is….

It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever…

– The School for Good and Evil, Soman Chainani

Adding

I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

– Squire, Tamora Pierce

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.

[Hiya Debnath]

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'..."

[Dibyarup James Potter]

Starting with:

"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."

[River Fenwick]

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."

[Prof. Sindor Aloyarc]

New Quote: “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” — Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

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.