Finish the Quote - Take Two

[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.

[Emily Spencer]

Starting with:
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever…"

Adding:
“I have no plans to love you. No matter what. You can't make me love you.”
From Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Ending with:
"It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever, I have no plans to love you. No matter what. You can't make me love you.”