Emily Bily

“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
― Jo Godwin

“When I got home, my mother was making salmon the way we like it, wrapped in wet paper towels and steamed in the microwave. You wouldn't think anything so easy could taste good, but it does.”
― Stephen King, Later

“Bush warned, ‘The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land, and although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones...What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.”
― Michael J. Knowles, Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds

“There was a chill in the air, to be sure, a damp cool vapour drifting round corners and rising from drains. But I had just come from London, where November vapours were like ill-intentioned hands sliding beneath your collar to encircle your coat-chafed, chicken-skinned throat, where November winds cut more deeply than my stolen scalpel ever did.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse