Eulah Ristow > Eulah's Quotes

“From the scene arrayed before her now, Tsula knows this new body means something entirely different. The tight bunchings of onlookers in hushed conversation. The watery eyes and mouths covered by fingers. This is how people gather when the dead is one of their own.”
― C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile

“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

“The people at the center of these stories of power couples mostly choose to see their own motives as selfless. In Elizabeth Edwards’ autobiography Resilience, she wrote of her marriage to John, U.S. senator from North Carolina, ‘We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be.’ When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading together became ‘the glue’ that kept them together. ‘I grabbed hold of it. I needed to,’ Edwards wrote. ‘Although I no longer knew what I could trust between the two of us, I knew I could trust in our work together.’ She wanted ‘an intact family fighting for causes more important than any one of us.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

“Pack had decided how he could help. But he could not fully explain himself to Cade. No way. There are problems, and there are big problems. This was a big problem. Big because it was risky, and big because Pack now confronted a moral dilemma. Were he not to assist Cade, there was a good chance the young woman might die, or be subjected to antifa brutality.”
― John M. Vermillion, Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“A different vantage point gives us new information, and with that information we can begin to change our approach.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

“. . . being on the wrong side of a pissing contest is never a good thing.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Blue

“Los demonios que eran enviados para atormentarme intentaban separar mi mente de mi espíritu.”
― John Ramirez, FUERA DEL CALDERO DEL DIABLO

“Vào thời kỳ mà chúng ta đang nói tới ấy thì các thành phố bị bao phủ bởi một thứ mùi hôi mà con người văn minh ngày nay không thể hình dung nổi. Ðường sá hôi mùi phân, sân sau hôi mùi nước tiểu, cầu thang hôi mùi gỗ mủn và phân chuột, bếp hôi mùi bắp cải thối và mỡ cừu; những căn phòng đọng khí hôi mùi bụi lưu cữu, buồng ngủ hôi mùi khăn giường nhơn nhớt, mùi nệm nhồi lông ẩm ướt và mùi ngọt hăng của bô nước tiểu. Ống khói hôi mùi lưu huỳnh, lò thuộc da hôi mùi dung dịch kiềm, lò mổ hôi mùi máu đông. Người hôi mùi mồ hôi và áo quần lâu không giặt; miệng hôi mùi răng sâu; từ bao tử tỏa ra mùi hành và khi cơ thể không còn trẻ trung nữa thì hôi mùi pho mát ôi, mùi sữa chua và mùi ung nhọt. Sông hôi, quảng trường hôi, nhà thờ hôi, gầm cầu hôi mà cung điện cũng hôi. Người nông dân cũng hôi như vị linh mục; gã học việc cũng hôi như vợ người thợ cả; toàn giới quý tộc hôi; phải, ngay cả đức vua cũng hôi như một con thú dữ còn hoàng hậu hôi như một con dê già, mùa hè cũng như mùa đông...”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Cheers for Edgar Poe!”
― Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon

“You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“The influences and associations that had always surrounded him, blinded him to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of Slavery. He never doubted the moral right of one man holding another in subjection. Looking through the same medium with his fathers before him, he saw things in the same light. Brought up under other circumstances and other influences, his notions would undoubtedly have been different. Nevertheless, he was a model master, walking uprightly, according to the light of his understanding, and fortunate was the slave who came to his possession.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

“She could have been an interior decorator, a good one, too, if it wasn’t for the pressing demands of so on and so forth.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game