“She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Source: Clockwork Angel
“She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
“She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.”
Wallace Stegner book Angle of Repose
Source: Angle of Repose
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Speech to Queen Elizabeth II http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/05/07/bush-to-queen-you-helpe_n_47847.html during her visit to the White House. (May 7, 2007) <br class="br">2000s, 2007
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott
Pt. III, st. 5
The Lady of Shalott (1832)
Context: She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She looked down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror cracked from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.
“Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.”
Kiran Desai (1971) Indian author
Source: Inheritance of Loss
“She glanced at him. “What gods do you respect?”
“None.”
“And why not?”
“I help myself,” he said.”
Source: Wild Seed (1980), Chapter 1 (p. 20)
Michael Swanwick (1950) American science fiction author
Source: In the Drift (1985), Chapter 3, “Boneseeker” (pp. 99-100)