“the hospital treated 11,602 patients, sixty-four a day, for injuries and ailments that suggest that the mundane sufferings of people have not changed very much over the ages. The list included: 820 cases of diarrhea; 154, constipation; 21, hemorrhoids; 434, indigestion; 365, foreign bodies in the eyes; 364, severe headaches; 594 episodes of fainting, syncope , and exhaustion; 1 case of extreme flatulence; and 169 involving teeth that hurt like hell.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“Villainy can win against one library, but not against an organization of readers.”
― Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
― Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?
“Then [the dinosaurs] sang me a song called, "Don't Go Down to the Tar Pits, Dear, Because I'm Getting Stuck on You.”
― Fortunately, the Milk
― Fortunately, the Milk
“It’s just like Chinatown and all the laws passed to contain us. We were never the enemy. The enemy was our country’s own fear.”
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“when he began to realize that he could never understand or predict the pathways that someone’s life could take; that the will of a desperate person was stronger than anything he knew and that fate unspools in its own stubborn way, beyond influence or rationale.”
― All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
― All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
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