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“Everyone, including Robbin’ Robin, dashed for the house as rain hammered down on them, Mary slammed the back door shut just as the sky split open.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

“You’re also only half-human, but you seem to identify completely with humans”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
― R.D. Ronald

“The Profumo Affair in 1963 profoundly altered British society. It gave lie to the belief that those born into the ruling class were inherently superior and destined to lead.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

“All you need to do is care.”
― Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

“He had the most sublime wit, and you never knew what was going to come out of his mouth.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

“Then I met Abigail. She was as intoxicating as the wine, the music was heady, and the body language, off the scale. When we finished our meal, I didn’t even have to ask, I went to the reception desk, picked up the key, and she followed me like a ticking bomb all the way to the room”
― Brian J. Twiddy, Blessing

“I think that people's nature is always to want a better life. So from that, we should not expect human beings to behave for benefit of the rest of nature-of the environment. You can only expect people to help the environment out of their own interest" Proffessor Zheng Zhe”
― Alan Weisman, Countdown: Our Last Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

“...And there it went, the burden of her lifetime, taken.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

“What I have now at your generous hands is infinitely precious to me. It would kill me to part with it,—I could not and I hope you could not. And I will be patient, patient without end, to see what, if anything, the future may have [in] store for me.”
― Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

“Now," said the young man, stooping gravely over his book of bills, "if you can assure me that I really can buy this kind of pious, and that it will be set down to my account in the book up above, as something belonging to me, I wouldn't care if I did go a little extra for it. How d'ye say?" "Wal, raily, I can't do that," said the trader. "I'm a thinkin that every man'll have to hang on his own hook, in them ar quarters.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“Тишина трескается и рассыпается. Раздается гул восьмицилиндрового движка - утробный, словно рык льва.

Выйди прямо на свет, как порядочный гражданин. Старайся дышать ровно.

Пальцы нащупывают в кармане холодную тяжелую вещицу. Надеюсь, доставать ее не придется.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City, Vol. 5: Family Values

“The day capitalism is forced to tolerate non-capitalist societies in its midst and to acknowledge limits in its quest for domination, the day it is forced to recognize that its supply of raw material will not be endless, is the day when change will come. If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle every day to protect their forests, their mountains and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains and the rivers protect them. “The first step towards reimagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination—an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as communism. An imagination which has an altogether different understanding of what constitutes happiness and fulfillment. To gain this philosophical space, it is necessary to concede some physical space for the survival of those who may look like the keepers of our past, but who may really be the guides to our future.” —Arundhati Roy, 2010”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate