Pandora Cloutman

“doubt not he understood then better than I did, the danger and the penalty of selling a free man into slavery. He felt the necessity of closing my mouth against the crime he knew he was committing.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years A Slave

“Now, Reverend Father Abbot asked me to make the following announcements:

"First, for the next three days we shall sing the Little Office of Our Lady before Matins, asking her intercession for peace.

"Second, general instructions for civil defense in the event of a space-strike or missile-attack alert are available on the table by the entrance. Everybody take one.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“ان العمر لص رهيب, فبمجرد ان تتمكن من مسار حياتك, ياتي هو اليك ليكسر ساقك ويحني ظهرك فيسكن الألم في جسدك, ويشوش عقلك وينشر في صمت مرض السرطان في جسد شريك حياتك.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance. But”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors