Ester Fliger

“Any woman can get any man, if she's dogged enough and doesn't love him too much.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden

“Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“The machines were simple and harmless, developed by a human genius who set in motion something, which ultimately had far reaching consequences.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

“Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)”
― Douglas Adams