“My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.”
Tom Stoppard (1937) British playwright
Source: Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966), Ch. 2: A Couple of Deaths and Exits.
“But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.”
— N. K. Jemisin, book The Broken Kingdoms
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 9 “Seduction” (charcoal) (p. 181)
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