Dot Gacke

“But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“Tomorrow is the day of the yearly election of the Well-Doer. Tomorrow we shall again hand over to our Well-Doer the keys to the impregnable fortress of our happiness. Certainly this in no way resembles the disorderly, unorganized election days of the ancients, on which (it seems so funny!) they did not even know in advance the result of the election. To build a state on some non-discountable contingencies, to build blindly—what could be more nonsensical? Yet centuries had to pass before this was understood!”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“says Brother Richard, a wide, cheerful man with liver spots and a comb-over, who brags that he has twenty-eight grandchildren.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith