Lanelle Carran > Lanelle's Quotes

“Trust is a strange bedfellow.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

“Thickly forested regions of Phuoc Tuy including the Rung Sat swamps and farms considered to be controlled by the Vietcong, were regularly sprayed by defoliants including “Agent Orange” using aircraft. This was both an inhumane and unsuccessful strategy which only destroyed enough food to feed 245,000 Vietnamese people for a year resulting in a propaganda gift to the Vietcong. (Ham, 2007). Given that defoliation did not uncover the enemy, who kept on fighting from jungle, caves and tunnels, the whole defoliation programme must be considered a failure. Given also, that birth defects and other health problems associated with defoliants can be directly blamed upon “Agent Orange”, it stands to reason that the allies in the Second Indochina War who sprayed it upon villages and farms can in fact be said to be, “Guilty of War Crimes!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.”
― Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue

“It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Man braucht es sich ja bloß vorzustellen: wenn außen eine schwere Welt auf Zunge, Händen und Augen liegt, der erkaltete Mond aus Erde, Häusern, Sitten, Bildern und Büchern, – und innen ist nichts wie ein haltlos beweglicher Nebel: welches Glück es bedeuten muß, sobald einer einen Ausdruck vormacht, in dem man sich selbst zu erkennen vermeint. Ist irgend etwas natürlicher, als daß jeder leidenschaftliche Mensch sich noch vor den gewöhnlichen Menschen dieser neuen Form bemächtigt?! Sie schenkt ihm den Augenblick des Seins, des Spannungsgleichgewichtes zwischen innen und außen, zwischen Zerpreßtwerden und Zerfliegen.”
― Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften I: Erstes und zweites Buch

“He glared at her. "Aye, and you shall be the best cabin boy I have ever had or I will feed you to the sharks. Savvy?" He turned and stomped back to the
ship”
― Bev Stout, Secrets of the Realm

“If you see it in your mind, you’re going to hold it in your hand.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty