Noella Grudem

“Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“In my case, intelligence was a disease that had led to a psychotic episode.”
― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: a con artist's masquerade

“He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never realized, somehow, that such blessedness might be his privilege. He was Doc Mc Coy, and Doc Mc Coy was born to the obligation of being one hell of a guy.”
― Jim Thompson, The Getaway

“Cependant Quenu se rappelait une phrase de Charvet, cette fois, qui déclarait que "ces bourgeois empâtés, ces boutiquiers engraissés, prêtant leur soutien à un gouvernement d' indigestion générale, devaient êtres jetés les premiers au cloaque." C' était grâce à eux, grâce à leur égoïsme du ventre, que le despotisme s' imposait et rongeait une nation.”
― Émile Zola, The Belly of Paris