Denyse Fairfield

“She’d worn anxiety like a thick robe for so long that it was hard for her to take it off.”
― Pernell Plath Meier, In Our Bones

“Her firm belief was that things would be better in society if there was a periodic ‘social cleansing’ to eliminate those influences that are considered unsavory. She sounds like she’d be fun at parties,” the officer joked.”
― Kathleen Lopez, Thirteen for Dinner

“Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel.

Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food.

The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

“Говорят, есть цветы, которые распускаются только раз в сто лет. Отчего же не быть и таким, какие цветут раз в тысячу – в десять тысяч лет. Может быть, об этом до сих пор мы не знали только потому, что именно сегодня пришло это раз-в-тысячу-лет.”
― Евгений Замятин, We