Jennifer (formerly Eccentric Muse)

“He said to me once: it is the mind that made the bombs that is killing the world. For that purpose the bombs are not needed.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

“The famed MRS degree, because in practice, a female brain is worth nothing. Four lobes of the cerebrum, and I have sometimes imagined one of mine labeled RAGE.”
― Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

“Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

“Basil Ransom had got up just as Mrs. Luna made this last declaration; for a young lady had glided into the room, who stopped short as it fell upon her ears. She stood there looking, consciously and rather seriously, at Mr. Ransom; a smile of exceeding faintness played about her lips--it was just perceptible enough to light up the native gravity of her face. It might have been likened to a thin ray of moonlight resting upon the wall of a prison.”
― Henry James, The Bostonians