Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. —Margaret Atwood
“I’m not just any talking mirror,” Ira says. “I’m a cool talking mirror.”
― Never After: The Broken Mirror
― Never After: The Broken Mirror
“There isn’t a person alive who would opt for Rasputin’s bloodletting techniques over the cutting-edge therapies at Sloan Kettering. And yet so many insist we believe these stories and then have the audacity to insist others believe them, too.” “You make a fair point, Evans,” Wakely wrote back. “But people need to believe in something bigger than themselves.” “Why?” Calvin pressed. “What’s wrong with believing in ourselves? Anyway, if stories must be used, why not rely on a fable or fairy tale? Aren’t they just as valid a vehicle for teaching morality? Except maybe better? Because no one has to pretend to believe that the fables and tales are true?”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will the white man realize he cannot eat money” was one of my father’s favorite sayings. “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”
― The Marsh King's Daughter
― The Marsh King's Daughter
“Walter, don’t you find it interesting that people even use that term ‘act of God’? Considering that most want to believe that God is about lambs and love and babies in mangers, and yet this same so-called benevolent being smites innocent people left and right, indicating an anger management problem”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“The first pancake is why you have a dog, so you have someone to give it to who appreciate it.”
― Razzmatazz
― Razzmatazz
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