Vikki Malagarie

“How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Gathering Storm

“Bet I will become known as brilliant cook and hostess”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and band, the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense