Nelf Rings Quotes

“For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.  There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language.  These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely.  Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental health are in perfection.  And at those weird points of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams.  And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within a dream.” – Edger Allen Poe”
― Mervin Miller, Nelf Rings

“Parkins was an engineer.  Here was a problem.  But within the problem was a second problem: his experiences and education placed constraints on his imagination.”
― Mervin Miller, Nelf Rings

“crude,”
― Mervin Miller, Nelf Rings

“Their parents had been progressive by nature.  They had taken their daughters with them to the Far East on a business trip with the intention of letting the girls see other cultures.  The trip had ended in disaster.  Their parents had been killed by local thieves, somewhere in the suburbs of Shanghai.  The girls had been taken and sold to the Yakuza.  Because their bodies had not been found, and they were not seen after the death of their parents, it was assumed the girls were dead and buried.  That women were still not as important in the culture of their home country had sped the closure of their case. Edith Cromwell spent a lot of sleepless nights that first week wondering about the psyches of the males she worked with each day.  Were they capable of the sort of crimes against women that these poor girls had endured?  The suspicions, the fears that this line of thought provoked could end in alcoholism, drug abuse, even suicide.  Edith decided that she had best just leave it well enough alone.  If not, she would never be able to work with any man ever again.”
― Mervin Miller, Nelf Rings

“a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language.”
― Mervin Miller, Nelf Rings

“That human beings could be so vicious seemed to speak to a primitive state.  Yet the Becky part knew humans had progressed to control of nuclear reactions and had simple spacecraft.”
― Mervin Miller, Nelf Rings

“Sandy Herschfeld liked watching others come to new realizations.  After all, it happened so rarely in the lives of civilized people.”
― Mervin Miller, Nelf Rings

“The sculptured beauty, the demure silence, the flawless complexion all captured the attention of the males.  It had been scary to watch.”
― Mervin Miller, Nelf Rings