Alexandra

“You have trouble in finding answers because you have declared all the relevant material and subjects as taboo.”
― Danial Shamsi

“Does this dress make me fat?”
“Of course it does. Don’t you own a mirror?”
― Deborah Blake, Dangerously Divine

“Taboos, though unadmitted, are potent. What is it that people fear? What they don't understand. The civilized man is not a whit different from the savage in this respect. The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.”
― Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

“Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander’s adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no longer free.”
― William Bolitho, Twelve Against the Gods