Julia

“and beware of trying to classify people too   definitely into types; you will find that all through their youth   they will persist annoyingly in jumping from class to class, and   by pasting a supercilious label on every one you meet you are   merely packing a Jack-in-the-box that will spring up and leer at   you when you begin to come into really antagonistic contact with   the world. ”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“These findings strengthen the argument that the brain exerts some kind of control over specific body parts according to how strongly we own them.”
― Heather Fraser, The Peanut Allergy Epidemic: What's Causing It and How to Stop It

“The Wilhelm Gustloff was pregnant with lost souls conceived of war. They would crowd into her belly and she would give birth to their freedom. But did anyone realize? The ship was christened for a man, Wilhelm Gustloff. My father had told me about him. He had been the leader of the Nazi Party in Switzerland. He was murdered. The ship was born of death.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“And what about the other half of the election truism—that the amount of money spent on campaign finance is obscenely huge? In a typical election period that includes campaigns for the presidency, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, about $ 1 billion is spent per year—which sounds like a lot of money, unless you care to measure it against something seemingly less important than democratic elections. It is the same amount, for instance, that Americans spend every year on chewing gum.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything