“She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.”
The Mortal and the Monster, in Stellar Short Novels edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey, p. 23
Short fiction
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 395.
The Love-knot, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Bonny Lesley
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
"Simone Weil" in The Nation (12 January 1957) http://www.cddc.vt.edu/bps/rexroth/essays/simone-weil.htm
Context: Simone Weil was one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth, or indeed of any other century. I have great sympathy for her, but sympathy is not necessarily congeniality. It would be easier to write of her if I liked what she had to say, which I strongly do not. …I think Simone Weil had both over- and under-equipped herself for the crisis which overwhelmed her — along, we forget, immersed in her tragedy, with all the rest of us. She was almost the perfectly typical passionate, revolutionary, intellectual woman — a frailer, even more highly strung Rosa Luxemburg. … She made up her own revolution out of her vitals, like a spider or silkworm. She could introject all the ill of the world into her own heart, but she could not project herself in sympathy to others. Her letters read like the more distraught signals of John of the Cross in the dark night.
