Patricia

“His inability to dissemble was well known. If his mind was in turmoil, his fingers were never far behind in manifesting the confusion; when he was pleased about something, his half-smile radiated uncontrollably, his arms ready to embrace the world. Cunning strategies did not proceed from such an open nature.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“How neat, how elegant, not to waste any more lives, but to give the dangerous task to the boy who had already been marked for slaughter,”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Modern womanhood was more about rubbing snail mucus on your face than she had thought it would be. But it had always been something, hadn’t it? Taking drops of arsenic. Winding bandages around the feet. Polishing your teeth with lead. It was so easy to believe you freely chose the paints, polishes, and waist-trainers of your own time, while looking back with tremendous pity to women of the past in their whalebones;”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This