Member: craftychacha

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.

- - - Josh Billings

posted by theoldman at 8:27 am (EST) on Jul 31, 2009

You have a really cool library! A lot of stuff I've never heard of, but now want to read. We also share some of the same tastes in books, as I too love historical fiction.

posted by zibilee at 9:42 am (EST) on Jun 27, 2008