Margarite Nolden

“is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the assistant, when he has driven out the invader, should seize on the dominions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish, the prince he came to relieve. ”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Her rage filled the house, flat stale smoke. It got into everything, into our hair and our food, like the fallout they talked to us about in school that would one day drift down soft as snow.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Gentlemen, how did the Tariq’Allah find out about the weapon? Was it from sources in the United States or Iraq?”
― Karl Braungart, Triple Deception