"Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers."

-- Robert Olen Butler

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“People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.”
“I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is. Someone who designs projects to make people happy. That's a game designer's purpose.”

Source : "Toru Iwatani, 1986 PacMan Designer". Interview with Susan Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.
“I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14”
“Wiggles hissed as I crossed the floor toward the throne. She fixed me with her empty hateful eyes and smelled the air, her long tongue shivering through the slit of the lipless mouth. Nice to see you too, sweetheart. Remember my cattle prod?”
“I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.”
“The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.”
“every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain”

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