Sam Roberts

“A squirrel, from the lofty depths of his domestic tree, chattered either in anger or merriment—for a squirrel is such a choleric and humorous little personage, that it is hard to distinguish between his moods—so he chattered at the child, and flung down a nut upon her head.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“A complex and controversial figure, Lacan held therapy sessions for ten minutes or three hours, seduced patients, freely belched and farted, all while rubbing shoulders with the most prominent intellectuals of his day.”
― Alexa Hagerty, Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

“When you’re twenty-four,” Marla says, "you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“During his journeys, Livingstone survived twenty-seven bouts of malaria thanks to his discovery of the ameliorative properties of quinine.”
― Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives