Amrithaa

“My problem was that by this time the Colonel and I had already had thirty straight hours of Togetherness and I’m not equipped for it, not even with the best friend I have on earth, which he isn’t.”
― Helene Hanff, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

“You know why farmer always kills fox? Fox can never take just enough. You ever see chicken house after fox comes? Chicken house is nothing but feathers and shit. Feathers and shit everywhere. Fox sees opportunity and loses mind. Fox cannot stop killing. Fox will spend all night burying bodies. More than fox can ever eat. Why? Because fox always goes too far.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

“You decide to stop using the word “anachronism” when a seventeenth-century carriage drives through the gates of Buckingham Palace carrying twentieth-century Russian or African diplomats to be welcomed by a queen. “Anachronism” implies something long dead, and nothing is dead here. History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London.”
― Helene Hanff, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

“What’s to be done?”

“I’ll have to go deep diving and look for the answer in the RDB.”

RDB?

“Rectal Data Base. Because I’m going to have to pull some serious shit out of my ass to make this work.”

“Truly poetic.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia