Rionda Alpine Quotes

#1. The living world is not a single array ... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#2. He might as well have told she'd fallen out of the ugly tree and hit her face a few extra times on the way down.

Jessica R. Patch

#3. I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

Albert Kesselring

#4. Mona told herself that even if her recent feelings were a delusion, they were by far preferable to the thirty years of immaculate deception she had suffered in her first marriage. Yet she had to forgive Akbar Ahmad - perhaps because he was already dead.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#5. This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.

Lynda Barry

#6. It was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.

Thomas Harris

#7. The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

George Scialabba