"Nothing good happened to Romeo or Juliet."

-- Susan Beth Pfeffer

“If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.”
“I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.”
“There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.”
“I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism â€” ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world â€” Death is only an incident in Life.”

Source : "Joseph Vance". Book by William De Morgan, Chapter XI, 1906.
“There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'”
“I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.”
“How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.411, Penguin
“Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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