Jennifer

“She observed wisely of her cinema alter ego: "Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere. Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.”
― James Robert Parish, The Hollywood Book of Scandals: The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds and Affairs of More than 100 American Movie and TV Idols

“It’s the nature of our society that I’m considered unworthy of huge financial reward for that risk. But what can be earned is a certain nobility—not in the sense of aristocratic status but in the sense of striving for quality and dignity of behavior and living.”
― Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

“Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Librarian of Auschwitz

“An effective tsar could be harsh provided he was consistently harsh. Rulers are often killed not for brutality but for inconsistency.”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918