"I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to a vine! I couldn't go there! I'd go to the desert to find a dragon. I began to reset the spyglass, but then I stopped myself. A spider was worse than a dragon? No. My first monsters would be spiders, then."

-- Gail Carson Levine

#Dragons Quotes #Monsters Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Once infected, the individual [infected with a god virus] cannot detect major contradictions in his beliefs and behavior. Belief systems become self-evident to him, and no amount of logical discourse will move him from his belief. If a Mormon and Catholic were to debate the merits of their respective religions, neither could see his own inconsistencies and logical fallacies, but would see the other's quite clearly.”
“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." â€” Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)”
“Adam Schiff, who is of course the ranking member on the House Select Committee said earlier today I`d be worried about an impulsive president with an impulsive national security adviser.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do,”

Source : "Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein Appears in Same-Sex Marriage Ad" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 02, 2012.
“Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes”

Source : Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)
“When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.”
“and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.58, A&C Black
“Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.”

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