Eleanore Lizer

“I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

“I've never had a boy in here," Martin said in a serious voice. "I've never touched another man, as a matter of fact. . . .except for my father. That was my duty.”
― Steig Larsson, The Millennium Trilogy

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin

“The major killers of humanity throughout our recent history—smallpox, flu, tuberculosis, malaria, plague, measles, and cholera—are infectious diseases that evolved from diseases of animals, even though most of the microbes responsible for our own epidemic illnesses are paradoxically now almost confined to humans.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies