Volutidae Quotes

#1. Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this ...

Stevie Smith

#2. William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you must know them. Speak with them, charm them, and remember them.

Geoff Ryman

#3. I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

Berenice Abbott

#4. And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives?

Meg Cabot

#5. A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.

George Jones

#6. Take away Churchill in 1940...Nazism would have prevailed. Hitler would have achieved what no other tyrant, not even Napoleon, had ever achieved: mastery of Europe. Civilization would have descended into a darkness the likes of which it had never known.

Charles Krauthammer

#7. That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.

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