"You're an idiot," she whispered tearfully. Finally, he opened his eyes and stared up at her; by then, she had moved on to stroking his hair and crying. She sat beside him on the edge of the bed, trying very hard not to bump him or let her cold tears fall on his bare chest and arms. For a moment he blinked at her. Then he asked, "Are you dead too?"

-- Melissa Marr

#Fall Quotes #Eye Quotes #Hair Quotes

“Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded.”
“For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment”
“I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.”
“By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.”
“You mean was an instant of my purity worth a lifetime of your lies?”
“No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.”
“Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology”

Source : "Clifford Geertz on Ethnography and Social Construction" by Gary A. Olson, Journal of Advanced Composition 11.2, hypergeertz.jku.at. 1991.
“Do I look like I know how to twerk? I'm a small blonde boy.”

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