Thad Takashima

“I don't think a being endowed with will-power should ever despair, as long as his hear beats.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

“Her lips silently formed three words, oh my love.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

“For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated. First there is shock. Within seconds, shock gives way to disbelief, disbelief to pain, and pain to anger. Finally (and this is where the analogy breaks down), anger gives way to a righteous urge to perpetrate an act of criminal damage with the aid of a permanent marker.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“... a safe haven, a place where the oppressed, the different, the fearful could exist, untroubled... hence its name, ‘Narytusca, home of the Circus’.”
― Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue