Mercurial Quotes

“The reality was that the United States in 2017 was tethered to the words and actions of an emotionally overwrought, mercurial and unpredictable leader. Members of his staff had joined to purposefully block some of what they believed were the president’s most dangerous impulses. It was a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

“She would never understand her sister. Her sister was like the weather, no, she was worse than the weather. She was like an earthquake that came out of nowhere to shake the world up, but even the tiny tremors, so unpredictable, were a little disorienting. Still, afterward, you were left feeling glad, if only because the ground was no longer shaking.”
― Victoria Kahler, Luisa Across the Bay

“The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master… So why did she still keep following her heart?”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath