Mariano

“What do you think you could buy me that will replace what you gave away that was mine?,”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, The House Next Door

“In the centre of the room not three yards away from them stood the figure of a man with his head bent over on to his shoulder, so that the face was not visible. Then he took his head in both his hands and raised it like a weight, and looked them in the face. The eyes and tongue protruded, a livid mark was round the neck.”
― E.F. Benson, Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

“As a special favor this dog is to be one of the ten animals to be admitted into his paradise, the others being Jonah’s whale, Solomon’s ant, Ishmael’s ram, Abraham’s calf, the Queen of Sheba’s ass, the prophet Salech’s camel, Moses’ ox, Belkis’ cuckoo, and Mahomet’s ass.”
― Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

“God made Man Happy and Rich, but cunning made the innocent poor,” I quoted Blake, more or less.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead