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“No one ever looked twice at the polite salesman with the warm smile and measuring tape. Evil rarely announces itself with thunder. More often it arrives with a discount on curtains.”

Book:Death By The Salesman: A Tale Of True Crime

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“Wendell looked at the faerie stone in his hand, shrugged, and smashed it against the floor. Out burst a flock of parrots. The birds shrieked and squawked, and the sheerie were momentarily distracted--- not afraid, they lunged at them like cats. Each parrot seemed to be carrying a tropical flower in its beak. Wendell hurled another stone. When it smashed, glittering banners unfurled upon the museum walls, covered in the faerie script. The ceiling was suddenly painted in frescoes of Folk lounging in forest pools, surrounded by green foliage. Vases of unfamiliar flowers appeared on every surface next to bottles of wine in ice buckets, and the air filled with the muffled sound of violins, as if drifting in from the next room.”

Magic Stones Faerie Parrots Enchantments Frescoes

Book:Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.”

Art Artists Edsel Ford

Author:Henry Ford

“Don't let life dangle in front of you, grab it, seize the day!”

Motivation

Author:Ronald Bunch

“Era molto più facile dirigere gli uomini francesi che non gli inglesi. Gli inglesi fingevano di essere onesti e pratici ma sotto sotto erano una razza di eccentrici. Solo i francesi dimostravano buonsenso nelle questioni importanti, non ero forse d'accordo? «Non saprei, Millie» risposi. «Quali sono le questioni importanti?». «L'amore e il denaro. Cos'altro c'è?». «La crudeltà».”

Alasdair Gray Poor Things

Book:Poor Things

Source: Poor Things

“Visitors entering the auditorium will notice a rainbow in the centre of the eastern gable, between two arches. This arcs above a portrait of Gray's Bella Baxter from his novel Poor Things (Gray 1992), here renamed Bella Caledonia, a Scottish heroine depicyed with tartan draped over her arm, holding a thistle. The words 'LET US FLOURISH BY TELLING THE TRUTH' accompany her. But that textual message, adapted from 'Let Glasgow Flourish', the motto on Glasgow's coat of arms, is one of multiple instructions.”

Alasdair Gray Poor Things Bella Baxter Bella Caledonia òRan Mór

Book:Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New

Source: Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New

“Some men fall in love with a woman, Some women fall in love with a man, Some men fall in love with another man, Some women fall in love with another woman - But I, my dear one, fell in love with Shetland. - Shetland”

Love Scotland Place Shetland

Book:Red, Cherry Red

Source: Red, Cherry Red

“But you have to remember, Shetland time is slower. There's a saying, that Shetland watches don't show minutes or hours-only years!”

Time Shetland Shetland Islands

Book:The AdderStane

Source: The AdderStane

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