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“Why does it matter? To Dad, I mean. The same-name thing.”
Cora wants to say it matters because sometimes big men feel small inside. Because some people—like Gordon’s father—travel through life believing
themselves so far beyond improvement, they come to think their children, and their children’s children, should all be made in their name.

"“It’s like… the ring is inherently neutral, you know? It’s what we choose to do with it that matters.” I paused, my heart hammering against my rib cage." - Sauroni Võimusõrmus on "inherently neutral"??? What even is this shit?

"Ruby never drove us; getting to school was another daily exercise in independence that she insisted would build character. [---] For me, at that point in my life, it was a walk. About a mile, a distance that seemed to stretch endlessly before me on those bitterly cold Utah
mornings when the wind cut right through my coat. [--- ]" - Ameeriklased...

The lack of action left him free to publish: Flinn next blamed the girls’ ‘improper diet’ for their ‘tendency to store radium in their bones’.

"Peg settled back at her desk in the studio without worry, however, picking up her brush and licking her lips in preparation for painting. She wasn’t at all concerned; the company, she was sure, would tell her if anything was wrong." - Ohhhh sweet summer child...

"See polegi koht, see on põrgu pärasoolikas! Oh Issand Jeesus Kristus, jumala ainus poeg ja rõõm, hoia mind tugevasti lõõgapidi, et ma ei satuks enam iialgi siia neetud paika! Siin röövitakse inimene paljaks ning peksa saab ta pealegi!"

"Mr. Pennyrake took a moment to consider. He eyed the basket, wondering which of his children this creature intended to take. Clara was the most trying to his patience as a rule, but then again, as son and heir, Henry was so far proving a bit of a disappointment. He supposed Mrs. Pennyrake would find it an inconvenience to replace either one of them."

"Parents should engage the old grey matter before deciding to foist unusal names upon their children, no matter how exotically appealing they think them to be."

Dracula (1931), meanwhile, was specifically targeted at women, positioned as a dark, doomed and ‘strange’ love story, promising a dangerous kind of titillation. It was released on Valentine’s Day and made Bela Lugosi into a bona fide sex symbol, setting up Dracula as an erotic icon far removed from the pointy-eared creature in Nosferatu.

As they carried on along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?

"The menu was ambitious in conception, and Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking."

To have a place tainted like that…it’s another violation on top of the original one. It happens all the time—you go walking somewhere, or swimming or running—whatever it is, your thing, the thing you enjoy—you go to a place, and it’s beautiful and unspoiled, and you are doing that thing you love, and then someone—not always a man, I suppose, but usually a man—comes along and transforms it into an ugly place.

Huvitav, millal inimesed lakkasid hoolimast, millised asjad välja näevad. Millal läbimõeldud disain tähtsusetuks muutus? Kas ühel päeval kogunes enamik ehitajaid ja disainereid kokku ja otsustas, et sitta kah? Sel pole enam tähtsust. Keda huvitab? Seinad, katus, uks, aknad (võib-olla) ja muud polegi vaja. Selles suhtes, et päriselt ka.. Sitta kah. Siin on teile üks hoone, pange lihtsalt asjad sisse ja müüge see maha.

Ma vihkan seda, et maailm on muutunud nii argiseks. Väga paljud inimesed kannavad õhtul linna peale minnes või teatris samu riideid, mida nad kannavad kodus, ja enamasti on need T-särk ja teksad või suisa dressipüksid. [---] Vaadakem tõele näkku: tänapäeva täiskasvanud käivad riides nagu lapsed.

See peab olema viimane Joona Linna raamat, sest ma päriselt ka ei suuda neid enam lugeda, aga ma mingist masohhislikust huvist alati võtan lõpuks värskeima kätte, kuigi ma kahetsen seda pärast... Nagu.. 21. peatükk - mis siin toimub?!

"JOONA LINNA ON TAGASI!" - nomaitea... Äkki laseks tal lõpuks rahus olla...

"I don’t think they’re a bunch of freeloaders and immigrants and miscreants and deadbeats, all expendable and unsalvageable. My ex-husband, who works for an oil company and lives in Patagonia, tells me that the neighbors are just afraid. I tell him that fascism generally starts with fear and then turns into hatred."

I try to avoid stereotypes, but in the case of the Hansen family they literally were inbred rednecks.

Sultanil on uutmoodi sõjamasinad, mis purustavad müüre, nagu oleksid need õhust tehtud.
"Sa tahad öelda, et ungarlasel on ükskõik, milleks tema masinaid kasutatakse?"
- "Maailmas on palju inimesi," vastab Himerius, "kellel on ükskõik, milleks nende masinaid kasutatakse. Peaasi, et nemad tasu saavad."

"Hoidla," lausub ta viimaks. "Kas sa seda sõna tead? Puhkepaik. Tekst - raamat - on puhkepaik nende inimeste mälestustele, kes elasid kunagi varem. Sedasi saab mälestus alles jääda, kui hind on edasi rännanud."

"Across the Baltic Sea in Finland, there is the Joulupukki or “Yule buck,” also
once represented by a draped performer holding or wearing what looked like a goat head. This sometimes frightening gift-bringer over the years became strangely intermingled and finally more or less replaced by a figure mostly identical with the more benevolent American Santa Claus." - hahaaaaa!

"Oddly enough, most of these Habergeiß lookalikes are found far to the
North, nearer the North Sea and especially the Baltic coastal regions that were once part of the German Empire." - meie jõulusoku esivanem ilmselt.