Page 191 Quotes

“...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.”
― Lawrence Millman, Last Places: A Journey in the North – A Classic Adventure Along Ancient Viking Routes from Norway to Newfoundland

“Yet five minutes after she had passed the statue of Achilles she had the rapt look of one brushing through crowds on a summer's afternoon, when the trees are rustling, the wheels churning yellow, and the tumult of the present seems like an elegy for past youth and past summers, and there rose in her mind a curious sadness, as if time and eternity showed through skirts and waistcoats, and she saw people passing tragically to destruction.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Suffering is wisdom’s schoolteacher”
― Lauren Kate, Teardrop

“Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander