Laura

“Antoine and Marie-Anne de Lavoisier held out for Lamanon the prospect of something he had not even known he was missing till that day in May—not so much marriage between equals, although that did seem true of them, or even marriage based on love, although that was obviously the case as well, but the happy union of science and humanity within an individual, and the joy that was possible when one person, so self-integrated, encountered another such person.”
― Naomi J. Williams, Landfalls: A Novel

“Who are we to take possession of this place?" he said. "These people have lived here for hundreds of years. Do they have no rights, simply because we have muskets?”
― Naomi J. Williams, Landfalls

“If only men could do this - shed from their bodies and their selves the things that would destroy them.”
― Naomi J. Williams, Landfalls

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading