Barbok

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“Between 1840 and 1844 God instructed the prophet to marry some forty women.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“By the early 1940s, experiments on birds had shown that antibodies were made by cells in a strange organ near their anuses (cloacae), named the bursa of Fabricius after its saclike structure (bursa) and its discoverer, the sixteenth-century anatomist Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

“My first crush also inspired my first nemesis. Let’s just call him Chad, a tall, skinny, white kid with blonde hair who looked like the promethean Aryan child, molded from the aspirational dreams of white nationalists everywhere. Despite accomplishing nothing of significance in his six years of life, Chad was a cocky bastard who walked like a mediocre white man who woke up every day thinking he pissed excellence.”
― Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American