Apryl Mcnees > Apryl's Quotes

“It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“My name is Jean sans Peur. I was handsomer, healthier and stronger than you when I first came to the bagne. Look at what ten years have done to me.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

“When I was a child," Theodora said lazily, "'--many years ago,' Doctor, as you put it so tactfully--I was whipped for throwing a brick through a greenhouse roof. I remember I thought about if for a long time, remembering the whipping but remembering also the lovely crash, and after thinking about it very seriously I went out and did it again.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“I know,” said Papa. “It’s all right with me, but women are a little different than men. They worry more.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

“while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of “as if,” therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Nemo impune me lacessit!!”
― Edgar Allan Poe