Corliss Senf

“My mother, who has read all of Balzac and quotes Flaubert at every dinner, is living proof every day of how education is a raging fraud. All you need to do is watch her with the cats. She’s vaguely aware of their decorative potential, and yet she insists on talking to them as if they were people, which she would never do with a lamp or an Etruscan statue. It would seem that children believe for a fairly long time that anything that moves has a soul and is endowed with intention. My mother is no longer a child but she apparently has not managed to conceive that Constitution and Parliament possess no more understanding than the vacuum cleaner.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“One historian has described the federal government’s 1950s highway-building binge as a case study in “interstate socialism”—”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“Adam offered her a heart-melting smile and a wink, then headed for the door. With his hand on the door, he paused and turned back.
Heidi’s eyes jumped up from his butt to his face.”
― Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

“They killed”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King