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  • #1
    “Many poor people standing in line are being turned away because they do not have enough money to get transportation.”
    Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

  • #2
    Sybrina Durant
    “No metal. . .no magic. . .and no technology.”
    Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically by the Elemental Dragons

  • #3
    Gary Clemenceau
    “The Green Judges, most of them decidedly miffed, grumbled out one by one, though I got a wink and a thumbsup from Washington.”
    Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

  • #4
    Ashby Jones
    “Being born upside-down was just the first irony in Suzanne's life, a forewarning that her struggle with existence had just begun.”
    Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

  • #5
    Todor Bombov
    “This acute, “a selfdissolving contradiction,” Marx had very precisely seen and foreseen that “it establishes a monopoly in certain spheres and thereby requires state interference.” This contradiction “reproduces a new financial aristocracy” (how much Marx was right!), no matter it will call itself Communist Party of Soviet Union or DuPont Financial Circle. It reproduces “a new variety of parasites . . . , a whole system of swindling and cheating by means of corporation promotion, stock issuance, and stock speculation.”
    Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

  • #6
    Max Nowaz
    “He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire."
        "And you? What are your plans?"
        "I have no plans to kill your father.”
    Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

  • #7
    Theasa Tuohy
    “The woman patted Sarah's hand. "Of course, my dove," her thick, almost black lipstick bunched into a dark oval, punctuating her face. Sarah snatched her hand back, startled. The volunteer label didn't quite fit with the black lipstick.
     ”
    Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

  • #8
    Sara Pascoe
    “Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #9
    J.D. Salinger
    “If or when I do start going to an analyst, I hope to God he has the foresight to let a dermatologist sit in on the consultation. A hand specialist. I have scars on my hands from touching certain people... Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clincal name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
    J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

  • #10
    Michael Crichton
    “I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.”
    Michael Crichton

  • #11
    Aldo Leopold
    “My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.”
    Aldo Leopold

  • #12
    Günter Grass
    “Oskar antwortet: Afrika suchte ich unter den Röcken, womöglich Neapel, das man bekantlich gesehen haben nuß. Da flossen die Ströme zusammen, da war die Wasserscheide, da wehten besondere Winde, da konnte es aber auch windstill sein, da rauschte der Regen, aber man saß im Trocken, da machten die Schiffe fest, oder die Anker wurden gelichtet, da saß neben Oskar der liebe Gott, der es schon immer gerne warm gehabt hat, da putzte der Teufel sein Fernrohr, da spielten Engelchen blinde Kuh; unter den Röcken mein Großmutter war immer Sommer, auch wenn der Weihnachtsbaum brannte, auch wenn ich Ostereier suchte oder Allerheiligen feierte. Nirgendwo konnte ich ruhiger nach dem Kalendar leben als unter den Röcken meiner Großmutter.”
    Günter Grass, El tambor de hojalata

  • #13
    Christopher Paolini
    “That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #14
    “When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
    Andrew Mann, Such Unfortunates



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