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Wow. The power of sperm. Everyone who has ever had contact with sperm should read this. Gabrielle Stanley Blair, opens her narrative stating that a woman’s egg is only fertile for 24 hours, but sperm are ALWAYS fertile. Despite this enormous discrepa
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“Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.”
― The Queen of Attolia
― The Queen of Attolia
“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”
― Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
― Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
“Remembering the story made me smile, and it was only when I smiled that I realized I had been crying.”
― Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism
― Send in the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism
“Will there be poppy juice in it?"
Phresine shook her head.
"Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.”
― The King of Attolia
Phresine shook her head.
"Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.”
― The King of Attolia
“Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?
Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms suffers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them. To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”
― East of Eden
Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms suffers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them. To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”
― East of Eden
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