Peter Rempel

“The book was better than the movie. For one thing, there was a lot more in it. And some of the pictures were awfully different from the movie.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“How did the age-old equation that poor equals thin and rich equals fat change so that now our working poor are huge and slow-moving and only the wealthy can afford the personal trainers, liposuction, and extended spa treatments required, it seems, to be thin?”
― Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones

“Salome interrupts. We’re not members ! she repeats. We are the women of Molotschna. The entire colony of Molotschna is built on the foundation of patriarchy (translator’s note: Salome didn’t use the word “patriarchy”—I inserted it in the place of Salome’s curse, of mysterious origin, loosely translated as “talking through the flowers”), where the women live out their days as mute, submissive and obedient servants. Animals. Fourteen-year-old boys are expected to give us orders, to determine our fates, to vote on our excommunications, to speak at the burials of our own babies while we remain silent, to interpret the Bible for us, to lead us in worship, to punish us! We are not members, Mariche, we are commodities.”
― Miriam Toews, Women Talking

“The ships, ever bigger, ever more powerful, ever more majestic, were the badge of spirit for mankind.

At least... sailors think so.

For bakers, it's the bread that rises in their ovens that mankind should pay attention to.”
― Diane Carey, Ghost Ship