Neil Edelson

“Ankh, udja, seneb!”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

“Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction without a difference: individual plants in which a trait desired by either bees or Turks occurred wound up with more offspring.”
― Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“Long ago people used to say what they wanted out loud and hope that someone would give it to them. They called it praying.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Fish had already told both Wertham and Detective King that, in addition to shoving needles inside his body, he liked to soak pieces of cotton in alcohol, cram them up his rectum, and set fire to them.”
― Harold Schechter, Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer