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“This is a, uh, friendship ring right?†“Yeah, don’t worry. If I propose, you’ll know it. For one thing, I’ll be hyperventilating.†A sly smile—surprisingly sexy—turned up his lips. “And it’ll be a ruby.†“Rubies? No diamonds? Too expensive for the old writer’s salary, huh?†He made a disparaging grunt at that. “No, I just think diamonds are common, that’s all. If I get married, it’ll be because something uncommon is occurring. Besides, you wear a lot of red, right? I know how important it is for your accessories to match.”
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“I had a dream this morning too, and you were in it," he said. "I don't remember what it was about, exactly, but when I woke up I looked at the clock and it was exactly six thirty-two." I felt an eerie tingle all down my back and froze with my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Really?" He smirked and popped the cookie into his mouth. "No”
Source : Kate Brian (2013). “The Complete Private Collection: Private; Invitation Only; Untouchable; Confessions; Inner Circle; Legacy; Ambition; Revelation; Last Christmas; Paradise Lost; Suspicion; Scandal; Vanished; The Book of Spells; Ominous; Vengeance”, p.2951, Simon and Schuster
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“There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.”
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“I think that if everyone did at least embrace a more plant-centered diet, it would improve public health.”
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“He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus. (267)”
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“Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills and to see the world.”
Source : "The voices of China's workers". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.
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“in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.”
Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.68, Feminist Press at CUNY
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“I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.”