Naomi

“he does, there are ways to camouflage many imperfections so that they don’t stand out like a sore thumb. A talented groomer probably can make an average Poodle look much finer than a near-perfect Poodle trimmed by an amateurish groomer.”
― Shirlee Kalstone, Poodle Clipping and Grooming: The International Reference

“I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone . . . I'd cook all my own food, and later on, if I wanted to get married or something, I'd meet this beautiful girl that was also a deaf-mute and we'd get married. She'd come and live in my cabin with me, and if she wanted to say anything to me, she'd have to write it on a piece of paper, like everybody else”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that
people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it may
or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably
be right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill a man.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State