Stephen

“(The Big Lie, always delivered in a prolonged scream, was a winning Hitlerian tactic, usefully adapted by all kinds of governments ever since.)”
― Martha Gellhorn, A Stricken Field: A Novel

“The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“His face was all sharp angles, thin and pointed, like something Pythagoras had doodled on the corner of his scroll before getting on with his theorem.”
― Philip Kerr, A Quiet Flame

“Now, for reasons both symbolic and practical, the crowd pulled George III down from his pedestal, decapitating him in the process. The four thousand pounds of gilded lead was rushed off to Litchfield, Connecticut, where it was melted down to make 42,088 musket bullets. One wit predicted that the king’s soldiers “will probably have melted majesty fired at them.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton