Dharma

“they catch initials -- STD, PMS, OCD, HIV, etc., as if MTV teamed up with KFC and licensed the Latin alphabet to the pharmaceutical industry so OTCs could replace MDs. If Romeo and Juliet were alive today, they’d be put on antidepressants, sent for counseling, and bundled off to separate boarding schools to meet socially acceptable partners with money-back guarantees.”
― Paula Young Lee, How to Be a Homeless Frenchman

“There is a sort of melancholy pleasure to be had out of a funeral, with its pomp and ceremony, but I shrank from a death-bed.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase

“And there are no pockets in shrouds!”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase

“Pogroms were whipped up every minute and people were murdered daily, especially Jews of course.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, A Country Doctor's Notebook