Glenn

“And the continual non-up-turnance of so valuable a commodity as a giant squid—the thought of getting their alembics on which made the city’s alchemists whine like dogs—was provoking more and more interest from London’s repo-men and -women.”
― China Miéville, Kraken

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

“Pain forces even the innocent to lie.”
― Publilius Syrus

“Marina brushed her hand across the back of her neck and dislodged something with a hard shell.

She had learned in time to brush instead of slap as slapping only served to pump the entire contents of the insect, which was doubtlessly already burrowed into the skin with some entomological protuberance, straight into the bloodstream.”
― Ann Patchett, State of Wonder