Shandong Quotes

#1. In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.

Barbara Demick

#2. I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.

James Gunn

#3. I don't think I have ever been out of control.

Bobby Knight

#4. Son. This was a revelation. The more she considered

Juliet Marillier

#5. unduly influenced

John Grisham

#6. For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

Willow Bay

#7. I've also been known to cry during MasterCard commercials.

Kimberly Raye

#8. Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

Claude Bernard

#10. There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

Jean Reno

#11. Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you! ... Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again! ... Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!

Gaston Leroux

#12. I sat in a room the color of egg yolk for two hours while the officer got my story down. The whole time I was thinking about Natalie going to autopsy, and how I would like to sneak in and put a fresh Band-Aid on her knee.

Gillian Flynn

#13. Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Yeah, they're just matches," I continued, my voice growing thick with tears. "And memories and smells and sounds and butterflies in my stomach every time I heard the car door slam outside, telling me that he was home. A thousand dreams of all the places I'd have adventures someday.

Penelope Douglas

#15. Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

William Davenant