Jaime add a quote by Candace L. Talmadge

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:38:18 -0800

"The Lord Steward summoned Lord James to his study. Joining them were Lord Nimrod, the Consort, and Judith, who stood beside the Consort and stared out the window. A winter sunrise streaked the sky with pink-and-gold light. Judith wrestled with her anguish. This is probably Helen’s last sunrise, and she’s no doubt in some stinking hole and cannot even see it. Lord James paid little heed to anyone else. All he saw was Miriam’s face, her green eyes harsh with accusation. All he heard were her pleas. Do something, James. Save her. Don’t let her die. Thinking he had everyone’s attention, Shinar got to the point. “It seems you have a daughter, James." -- Candace L. Talmadge

Jaime add a quote by Hanna Hasl-Kelchner

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:38:56 -0800

"Perceptions of unfairness operate on a continuum" -- Hanna Hasl-Kelchner

Jaime add a quote by R.D. Ronald

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:39:32 -0800

"But when people talk about it they call it The Zombie Room." -- R.D. Ronald

Jaime add a quote by Jack Borden

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:40:15 -0800

"She felt love, like the love that she had always known existed behind every fallen autumn leaf, behind the gurgling of springs, and behind the kisses of her parents." -- Jack Borden

Jaime add a quote by Sara Pascoe

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:40:50 -0800

"With our beloved prairie voles the female has her ovulation induced by the smell of male urine. It’s a sure sign there’s a male nearby and so her body gets ready for mating. The exact opposite of a human female getting a whiff of urinals in a nightclub and her vagina falling off in disgust" -- Sara Pascoe

Jaime add a quote by A.R. Merrydew

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:41:29 -0800

"The demise of the human race rests mainly on the shoulders of stupidity, and the abuse of power in the hands of those we have elected." -- A.R. Merrydew

Jaime add a quote by Andrew Mann

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:42:28 -0800

"When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point." -- Andrew Mann

Jaime add a quote by Herman Melville

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:44:42 -0800

"In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it is all over obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings. But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon the isinglass substance above mentioned, but seem to be seen through it, as if they were engraved upon the body itself. Nor is this all. In some instances, to the quick, observant eye, those linear marks, as in a veritable engraving, but afford the ground for far other delineations. These are hieroglyphical; that is, if you call those mysterious cyphers on the walls of pyramids hieroglyphics, then that is the proper word to use in the present connexion. By my retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi. Like those mystic rocks, too, the mystic-marked whale remains undecipherable." -- Herman Melville

Jaime add a quote by Eve Ensler

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:46:39 -0800

"I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends." -- Eve Ensler

Jaime add a quote by Colleen McCullough

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:49:16 -0800

"What you do is far more significant than why you do it—that's a fact of life! Why you do a thing is solely balm for the self, why you do a thing cannot affect its outcome. The what is all that matters" -- Colleen McCullough

Jaime add a quote by Thomas Keneally

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:54:57 -0800

"But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century." -- Thomas Keneally