Unalaq's Quotes

#1. I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.

Michaela Watkins

#2. I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Virginia Woolf

#3. All creations demand greenery of spirt.

Diana Vreeland

#4. Esther runs Unalaq's ruby thumbnail up the stem of a purple tulip. You miss purple, after a few years ...

David Mitchell

#5. Books'll be back," Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. "Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It's not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

David Mitchell

#6. Don't give away what you can't afford to lose.

A Meredith Walters

#7. There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.

Bartholomew Roberts

#8. The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that everything except God is a servant to God, as He Most High has said, "There is none in the heaven and the earth but cometh unto the Compassionate as a servant."

Ibn Ata Allah

#9. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.

Anand Gopal

#11. There is, in practice, no such thing as autonomy. Practically, there is only a distinction between responsible and irresponsible dependence.

Wendell Berry

#12. The Constitution is awesome, but still overrated; it's like Pet Sounds.

Chuck Klosterman

#13. The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

Alexander Pope

#14. When something breaks down or does not go as planned, we are given a glimpse of our great need.

Christie Purifoy