Treena Mateer

“Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head.

'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.”
― Erin Morgenstern

“The lesson of every extinction, says the Smithsonian's Doug Erwin, is that we can't predict what the world will be 5 million years later by looking at the survivors. "There will be plenty of surprises. Let's face it: who would've predicted the existence of turtles? Who would ever have imagined that an organism would essentially turn itself inside out, pulling its shoulder girdle inside its ribs to form a carapace? If turtles didn't exist, no vertebrate biologist would've suggested that anything would do that: he'd have been laughed out of town. The only real prediction you can make is that life will go on. And that it will be interesting.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

“Tie neišmanėliai girs taisyklingus bruožus, liauną figūrą, nepriekaištingą krūtinę. O jos akys, šnekės jie, esančios kaip smaragdai, o dantys - kaip perlai, o rankos ir kojos glotnios kaip dramblio kaulas - ir dar kokių tik neprigalvos idiotiškų palyginimų. Ir išrinks ją Jazminų Karaliene, tapys paiki dailininkai, visi vėpsos į jos portretą ir sakys, kad ji - gražiausia Prancūzijos moteris. Jaunikaičiai ištisas naktis bruzgins mandoliną ir stūgaus po jos langu... stori turtingi seniai susmukdami ant kelių prieš mergaitės tėvą maldaus jos rankos... o visokio amžiaus moterys dūsaus ją regėdamos ir sapnuos, kad bent vieną dieną atrodo taip viliojančiai kaip ji. Ir niekas nesupras, kad ne jos išvaizda iš tikrųjų juos užvaldė, ne jos tariamai nepriekaištingas išorinis grožis, o tik su niekuo nepalyginamas karališkas kvapas!”
― Patrick Süskind

“It became increasingly common to resolve international tensions by legal means. The chant “Criminal Trials, Not Missiles” became prevalent after its use in my first State of the Union address. Nice ring to it.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]