Daphne Alberding

“What? Are there two of them?” she asked. “Are we being invaded?” I laughed, but it was an understandable question given what she had just learned. “No, there is only one GERI. It’s something else. On Wednesday, when I let GERI out of the barn, I started the process of cleaning out the house. I found a ton of money under the floor in old Simpson’s closet.”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

“Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you’ve believed in all your life aren’t true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Sabes muy bien que soy orgullosa... ¡Ah! ¡El orgullo es mi desgracia, lo confieso! ¿Me ha robado la mariscala de Fervaques tu corazón? ¿Ha hecho por ti todos los sacrificios que hice yo, arrastrada por mi fatal amor?”
― Stendhal, Rojo y Negro