"There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl."

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Source : Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.113, Penguin

Franny Billingsley

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“When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.”

Source : Mary Baker Eddy (1969). “Christian Science Sentinel”
“The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns”
“The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood or womanhood can have no intellectual fulfillment, and millions of them only attain mentally to a sort of second childhood”
“You have to treat your employees like customers”
“Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.”

Source : John Hanning Speke (1863). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.19
“Sometimes, it is best to listen, ask the super question, for ambition is hustle.”
“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”
“I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.”

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