Inglês - Dia 47

"Mrs. Allerton strove to make her voice sound casual and ordinary. The friendship between her son and his second cousin, Joanna Southwood, always irritated her. Not, as she put it to herself, that there was 'anything in it'. She was quite sure there wasn't. Tim had never manifested a sentimental interest in Joanna, nor she in him. Their mutual attraction seemed to be founded on gossip and the possession of a large number of friends and acquaintances in common. They both liked people and discussing people. Joanna had an amusing if caustic tongue."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." Helen Keller

Word of the day:
Chthonian - (adjective) Classical Mythology. of or pertaining to deities, spirits, and other beings dwelling under the earth.

* Perhaps the smell of blood, dark and chthonian, at the precise moment that the bird screamed, awakened something deep and intrinsic in what remained of Pan's counciousness.

Tom Robbins, Jitterburg Perfume, 1984

* Meanwhile, the obstinate insistence of the chthonian voices did not let up, as if the threatening presence of enemies, of the powerful who persecuted the people of the Lord, remained unresolved.

Umberto Eco, Translated by Richard Dixon, The Name of the Rose, 2014.