“Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.”
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Source: The Last Olympian
Source: The Dragon Heir
“Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters.”
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Source: The Last Olympian
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
Lyman, Act 2
The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)
Ernest King (1878–1956) United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
Excerpt from a late March 1942 memorandum King wrote to President Roosevelt, urging against adopting the policy of those most concerned with defending the continental United States. It is unknown if the memorandum was actually ever seen by the President. The entire memorandum is quoted by Thomas B. Buell in his book Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (1980), p. 193.
/ 1940s
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
Women Saints of East and West
“He was a lawyer before he worked his way up to pimping.”
Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 1, “Legate” (p. 23)
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Men Without Women (short story collection) (1927)
Source: The Complete Short Stories
Sengai (1750–1837) Japanese artist
Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
“Twenty-three dagger thrusts went home as he stood there. Caesar did not utter a sound after Casca's blow had drawn a groan from him; though some say that when he saw Marcus Brutus about to deliver the second blow, he reproached him in Greek with: "You, too, my child?"”
Atque ita tribus et viginti plagis confossus est uno modo ad primum ictum gemitu sine voce edito, etsi tradiderunt quidam Marco Bruto irruenti dixisse: και συ τέκνον.
Sueton book The Twelve Caesars
Source: The Twelve Caesars, Julius Caesar, Ch. 82