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“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Be careful what you get good at doin' 'cause you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life. -Jo Carson”
― Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

“It’s the typical hungry-vagina fodder, written in the same cotton-candy verbiage: “To really wow your guy pal, wait until he’s almost there”—this is written in italics, an editorial nudge-wink—”and then put him in your mouth for a mind-blowing climax.” Tasha is always annoyed by the use of “him” in place of “penis.” What if she didn’t know any better? What if she thought “him” meant him? All of him? She imagines herself an anaconda of a woman, her jaw unhinged, swallowing her lover like a reptilian black widow.”
― Olivia A. Cole, Panther in the Hive

“Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today — it is unnatural for us to think that this way of life, this present moment, this order of things is not stable and permanent. Across the world today, our actions testify to our belief that we can go on like this forever, burning oil, poisoning the seas, killing off other species, pumping carbon into the air, ignoring the ominous silence of our coal mine canaries in favor of the unending robotic tweets of our new digital imaginarium. Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovation and endless energy, just as the reality of mortality shocks our casual faith in permanence.”
― Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization

“Everything is already moving so very fast, but you need a great deal more speed than this to escape the earth's gravitational pull. Seven miles per second. More fuel, please.”
― Alexander Chee, Edinburgh

“Intentions, yours or anyone else’s, don’t matter; they never matter and never excuse: get that into your head.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“isn’t it sometimes more expensive to accept favours than it is to buy them?” He”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“She was as pale as the silk. Scott saw Lymond’s gaze rest on her, delicately practised, just before he moved. Then he touched her, and the woman’s eyes closed. Folded with infinite care on the sweet edge between agony and delight she suffered a kiss of an expert passion which made itself lord of all the senses, of thought, and the dead fields of time. The fire blazed on Lymond’s shoulder and arm and his bent head, and Scott saw something regal in the still, white and gold figures melted into one, pliant as a painting in honey and wax. Then”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“habits are hell’s own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination. They’re the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.” Katherine”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you’re a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency.” Kate”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“You choose to play God, and the Deity points out that the post is already adequately filled.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“Patriotism,” said Lymond again. “It’s an opulent word, a mighty key to a royal Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. Patriotism; loyalty; a true conviction that of all the troubled and striving world, the soil of one’s fathers is noblest and best. A celestial competition for the best breed of man; a vehicle for shedding boredom and exercising surplus power or surplus talents or surplus money; an immature and bigoted intolerance which becomes the coin of barter in the markets of power—” Into”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life—without flinching”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“He’d tried for me twice. Three times, if what you say is true. I decided not to give him a fourth chance.” “Oh.” Penric sank back, signing himself. “I regret… not doing better with him.” “Well, he’s his god’s problem now. Don’t promote your troubles beyond your rank.” “That is actually theologically sound advice.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric’s Mission

“It was in Alexandria that the circumference of the earth was first measured, the sun fixed at the center of the solar system, the workings of the brain and the pulse illuminated, the foundations of anatomy and physiology established, the definitive editions of Homer produced. It was in Alexandria that Euclid had codified geometry.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“He flapped and hopped until he was up in the air and, frantically looking around, eyed the dining room table again and headed its way. This time he stuck his feet out in front of him and held them open like hands trying to grab solid ground. But it didn’t help. He hit the table, slid on his rear all the way across, and crashed on the floor again. Again I dissolved in laughter and again Wesley stared stonily at the wall. I stopped laughing abruptly when I realized that Wesley was embarrassed. Learning to fly is physically and emotionally very difficult, and human owl mothers should not laugh at their babies. From then on I tried my hardest to keep a straight face. Most pet owners know that animals can read emotions such as anger, approval, affection, and acceptance. But it had never occurred to me that perhaps an animal could feel ridiculed. From that point forward, no one in Wendy’s house was allowed to laugh at Wesley, at least not in front of him, while he was learning to fly. Sometimes we had to run into the bathroom, shut the door, and burst out laughing.”
― Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

“If I will not take responsibility, I cannot take control.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, The Truth About Grace

“what good was what I was doing if I couldn’t fix what I hadn’t done?”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, The Truth About Grace

“I’ve heard it said that when we know better, we do better. My experience is, when we learn different, we do different. Better is a matter of perspective.”
― Cassie Dandridge Selleck, The Truth About Grace

“I’m not crossing the aisle of sanity. The aisle is crossing me.”
― Derek B. Miller, Norwegian by Night

“Only the educated stop to look for words—having enough to occasionally misplace them.”
― Derek B. Miller, Norwegian by Night