Amanda’s Profile

“Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.”
― Victor Hugo

“We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists”
― Stephen Jay Gould

“And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

“That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.”
― James Turner, Rex Libris Volume Two: Book Of Monsters