“It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“The longer he lived, the more Tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
“Manistee was known as a wide-open town, a lucrative stopover for glassware salesmen because lumbermen, when properly drunk, liked to smash their drinking vessels.”
― A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
― A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
“I… I don’t think that’s wise, sir. It’s foreign, very foreign. With a lot of foreigners. It will probably be worse than France, sir.”
― Death in Damascus
― Death in Damascus
“just how precious a resource our fellow humans are.”
― Murder at the Spring Ball
― Murder at the Spring Ball
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