“Esto es lo que piensa la gente de la lucha por la igualdad. Que es irrelevante, superflua e inútil. Algo que no vale ni un pedo.”
“Si no empezamos a valorarnos como algo más que mercancía, si seguimos fiando nuestra felicidad y nuestras aspiraciones al aspecto físico, todo lo conquistado hasta ahora habrá sido una tremenda pérdida de tiempo. ¿De qué sirve denunciar la opresión de la mujer si nosotras somos las primeras en ejercerla?”
Source: A Book for Her
“He had spent so long working with the police, everything was a conspiracy to him.”
Source: Unreasonable Force
“Cartwright grooved the chisel's tooth into the base of the skull, where the spine would fuse, and lifted the hammer. The chisel jumped in his hand and half the skull turned to silt. It cascaded down the rock wall with the faintest sigh. The {nine-fingered} boy let out a string of oaths so profane, so unparalleled, that surely they'd been inspired by a hell so near.
Cartwright was glad to have a hammer in hand.”
Source: Allegheny Front
“eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants”
Source: Call Me the Canyon: A Novel
“One can't step into the river twice”
Source: Call Me the Canyon: A Novel
“Emotional and filled with unthinkable sorrow, Mrs. Pitezel had to see where Howard took his last breath—where Holmes ripped her son from her.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“Thousands of soldiers, ink barely dry on discharge papers, begged in vain to start a new campaign of revenge.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“It must have taken very careful management to have moved these three separate parties from Detroit to Toronto, without either of the three discovering either of the others, but this great expert in crime did it, and did it successfully,” Geyer later said.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer
“Despite a protective Geyer threatening to “break the neck of the first reporter who attempted to interview the woman,” a determined reporter caught Mrs. Pitezel on her way out of the Rossin House dining room.”
Source: Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer