"What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?"

-- Dennis Lehane

#Girl Quotes #Law Quotes #Names Quotes

“Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.”
“As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced to use the methods of this science [chemistry]. No longer will the microscope, the kymograph, the scalpel avail for the complete solution of the problem. For the further analysis of these phenomena which are in flux and flow, the investigator must associate himself with those who have labored in fields where molecules and atoms, rather than multicellular tissues or even unicellular organisms, are the units of study.”

Source : John Jacob Abel, Otto Folin, Theobald Smith (1915). “Experimental and chemical studies of the blood: with an appeal for more extended chemical training for the biological and medical investigator”
“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.”
“We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have been the evil in which they engaged, at least they were willing to acknowledge the principle by which their evil was condemned. We have even turned our back on the principle.”
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”
“Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.”
“Success causes us to be more praised than known.”
“Itâ€™s been me all along,â€ said September slowly. â€œMe who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That to wake up the Prince. Me who shot the poor Minotaur. You oughtnâ€™t just hand the whole business over the moment a Prince comes on the scene. Iâ€™ve got to see it through, donâ€™t you see? The Hollow Queen is hollow because sheâ€™s missing the part of her thatâ€™s me. Weâ€™ve got to come together again. And he canâ€™t do a thing about that.”

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