Joan DeArtemis

“He cleared his throat. “Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Now they were facing a second pair of doors, silver this time, with words engraved upon them: Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was being asked to choose not between a good and a bad but between two goods (or two bads, depending upon your angle of view).”
― Eugene L. Lowry, The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form

“The set of outline notes of our poorer sermons, however, will likely reveal that they were shaped by the nature of their substantive content, not by the process of the narrative experience that is anticipated.”
― Eugene L. Lowry, The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form