She’s twelve, she’s twenty-one, she’s thirty-three, she’s all the ages at the same time. But she isn’t aging. Not in her heart. Not in her mind’s eye.
“I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.”
― The Einstein Prophecy
― The Einstein Prophecy
“Edgar Poe has said, always “to reckon with the unforeseen, the unexpected, the inconceivable, which have a very large share (in those affairs), and chance ought always to be a matter of strict calculation.”
― An Antarctic Mystery
― An Antarctic Mystery
“As to ‘onto’. I know this is an ugly word, but I consider it to be necessary in certain contexts. If you say ‘the cat jumped on the table’ you may mean that the cat, already on the table, jumped up and down there. On the other hand, ‘on to’ (two words) means something different, as in ‘we stopped at Barnet and then drove on to Hatfield’. In some contexts, therefore, one needs ‘onto’. Fowler, if I remember rightly, doesn’t altogether condemn it.”
― 1984
― 1984
“There were odd stories about him; as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened. She”
― Peter and Wendy
― Peter and Wendy
“It’s been said of Pennsylvania that it’s made up of Pittsburgh on the west end, Philadelphia on the east, and Alabama in the middle.”
― A Criminal Defense
― A Criminal Defense
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