Shannon

“Sarah Wyatt believed that sex was a sort of pratfall that was easily avoided. To avoid it, she had only to remind a would-be lover of the ridiculousness of what he proposed to do to her.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jailbird

“Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jailbird

“The policemen who will protect his property rights but not your human rights - those are loaded dice.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jailbird

“Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going—singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights