Justin Ulmer

“Herger said to me, "Be thankful, for you are fortunate."
I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, "If you have the fear of high places, than this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero.”
― Michael Crichton, Eaters of the Dead

“It's amazing the limitation of the human anatomy, the fact that food and air must share a common passage.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“I tried to think dead thoughts, and hoped the right expression was showing on my face.”
― Harry Harrison

“I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.”
― Jane Austen, Lady Susan