“There are many other questions. Noe answers them with variations on:
1. Stop complaining.
2. We’ll solve that problem when faced with it.
3. God will provide.
Sem and Bera seem generally assured by the last of these, while Mirn and Japheth shrug in consent to the first. Illa and Cham appear markedly unconvinced, especially with the second, but surrender to the understanding that no further information is forthcoming. Pg195”
Source: The Preservationist
“I am reminded of how exquisitely easy friendship with Percy is, equal parts comfortable silence and never lacking things to say to each other.
Or rather it was easy, until I ruined it by losing my bleeding mind every time he does that thing where he tips his head to the side when he smiles.”
Source: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue & The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy By Mackenzi Lee 2 Books Collection Set
“Ellen could not imagine what she would do now if Ben had not returned to her life. Would she sit at home and complain to her family and friends about what a jerk her husband was? Drowning in lawsuits with her ex-husband and the costs?”
Source: Anything Can Happen
“With her hand tucked into his elbow, Rooke led Emeline down halls awash in the golden hues of sunset. Vases bordering the windows sprouted green pine boughs and branches of bright red sumac. As Emeline quickened her pace to match his long strides, the fabric of her dress whispered against the floor.”
Source: Edgewood
“To assist him in his duties there was a rather large police force which did nothing but extract confessions, mostly from squirrels.”
Source: Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
“Meanwhile, Hawaiian politicians tried to make up for lost time by officially granting cops the “right” to rape sex workers by spelling the permission out in the text of the new prostitution law. When a legislator discovered this provision in 2015 and rewrote the law to scrap it, the cops demanded that their decades-old droit du seigneur remain in place, and it probably would’ve had not the media gotten hold of the story and a public outcry not ensued. Now there’s a movement to decriminalize sex work there, which might at last free Hawaiian whores from the tender mercies of cops.”
Source: The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I: Collected Essays from "The Honest Courtesan"
“They seemed more like machines than humans, and, let’s face it, they are a civilian’s army. An army whose soldiers dressed in costumes and walked and talked like robots, with guns strapped to their waist belts, always looking for an enemy.”
“We quarreled," he said. "Things were said that shouldn't have been said on both sides...”
Source: The Angel's Game
“By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.”
“If mental abuse was a punishable crime, a lot of parents would be in jail serving a long term.”
Source: How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy