Shane Moore

“Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a classic political coalition: it had worked in Medieval France. It was the long-forgotten bottom of the heap, allied with the formerly feeble top, to scare the hell out of the arrogant and divisive middle.”
― Bruce Sterling, Distraction

“The magic trick of a Romance novel is that we know how it ends. We know who is going to end up together, usually from the first chapter. And yet, the author has to make it gripping. While we know they’ll live happily ever after, we must feel at some point that the author can’t possibly pull off the trick. That’s art, telling people the punchline and still have it be surprising and delightful.”
― Alice Fraser, A Passion for Passion: A Delirious Love Letter to Romance

“I don't see myself very clearly.
Then look at the people who love you...Look into their eyes and see what they're seeing; that's all you need to know yourself.”
― Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener

“I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.”
― Winston Churchill