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“Are you really a reporter?” asked Brown.
“You already asked me that. Come back to Levita, take the pardon.”
 “I doubt I’ll live long enough to get there,” said Brown bitterly.
“I hope you survive. You are a fighter. And we have the antidote for your habit on
Levita. I suggest you take a vacation. There’s nothing much that’s going to happen here.”
With that she left, leaving Brown more confused than ever.
He was a father, he had a son. And, the Levitians had a cure for his drug-addled body.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“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

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ”
― Walt Whitman

“there was a fiendish logic. The more independent you became, the more successful, the less control I had of you. You would become your own person then, with your own ideas and your particular version of reality. The more reliable and respected you became, the more possibility there was that you would be a trustworthy witness.”
― V (formerly Eve Ensler), The Apology

“Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“..each ministry has an allocation of money to spend on projects agreed to by the government.
Every Secretary of State is acutely aware that his tenure of office maybe very short, so he picks out a major contract for himself from the many available.
It's the one way to ensure a pension for life if the government is changed overnight or the minister simply loses his job.”
― Jeffrey Archer, A Quiver Full of Arrows

“I guess the consolation is that she's not going to be beautiful forever," he says. "But I'd like to be with her before that happens.”
― Bret Easton Ellis