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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 79ac163 | The emergence of Aids, Ebola and any number of other rain forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere. The emerging viruses are surfacing from ecologically damaged parts of the earth, like Mount Elgon. The tropical rain forests are the deep reservoirs of life on the planet, containing most of the world's plant and animal species. The rain forests are also its largest reservoirs of viruses, since a.. | Richard Preston | ||
| e26b037 | The hand is a symbol of humanity, part of what makes us human - the hand that carved the Parthenon, painted the hands of God and Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and wrote King Lear was the only hand that had known smallpox. That same hand had now given the disease to a monkey. | Richard Preston | ||
| 8435d86 | The Ebola war wasn't won with modern medicine. It was a medieval war, and it went down as a brutal engagement between ordinary people and a life form that was trying to use the human body as a means of survival through deep time. In order to win this war against an inhuman enemy, people had to make themselves inhuman. They had to suppress their deepest feelings and instincts, tear down the bonds of love and feeling, isolate themselves from .. | humanity | Richard Preston | |
| 5d6a8c5 | Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious pathogen, including the Black Death of the Middle Ages. Epidemiologists think that smallpox killed roughly one billion people during its last hundred years of activity onearth. | Richard Preston | ||
| 03256dd | The team had discovered the red chamber of the virus at the end of the earth, where the life form had amplified through mothers and their unborn children. | Richard Preston | ||
| 37df1b3 | The next time you work on your trees, don't think about trees. Think about love, or hate, or joy, or rage-- whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat or your toes curl. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 526ab2b | Underground, pale seeds roll over in their sleep. Starting to get restless. Starting to dream green. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| f7955f6 | Let me ask you something. We're fighting for freedom, right?" I picked my words carefully. "So why is that man allowed to own Baumfree and Bett?" "Well," he said slowly, "we're fighting for our freedom. Not theirs." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a0f8c87 | A teacher (a good teacher) is composed of molecules of education and intelligence, bonded together by patience and passion. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| ad50de2 | I push my ragged mouth against the mirror. A thousand bleeding, crusted lips push back. What does it feel like to walk in a new skin? Was she completely sensitive like a baby, or numb, without nerve endings, just walking in a skin bag? I exhale and my mouth disappears in a fog. I feel like my skin has been burned off. I stumble from thornbush to thornbush--my mother and father who hate each other, Rachel who hates me, a school that gags on .. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 53ab913 | I wake up breathing dirt. I cough and spit out the pebbles in my mouth, but when I inhale again, wet clots of clay fill my lungs. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 50edc55 | I used to dream about bringing a knife to therapy and slicing her into pork chop-sized pieces. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 86bc083 | Maybe that was why I wanted to slap so many of the zombies; they had no idea how freaking lucky they were. Lucky and ignorant, happy little rich kids who believed in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and thought that life was supposed to be fair. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 287095f | Well... It might be a little broken.' 'A little broken is still broken,' I pointed out. 'But fixable. | inspirational | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| d65a3ae | If everyone was really having sex, they why was it paradoxically a hush-hush-whisper thing and a scream-it-online-and -in-the-cafeteria thing? If everyone was really having sex, why weren't more girls sporting baby bumps? I know the statistics. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 219ff2d | One had to be careful with elbows and boys | courting | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 500a4ab | No wonder the zombies were crazy. They thought they were supposed to practice breeding before they learned how to do their own laundry. They talked about it, thought about it, maybe did it, all while going through the motions of attending class and learning stuff so that they could go forth and become productive adults. Whatever that was supposed to mean. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 75b204a | Looking out the window, I wondered how many of those kids had parents who were losing it, or parents who were gone, taken off without a forwarding address, or parents who had buried themselves alive, who could argue and chop wood and make asses of themselves without being fully conscious. How many of them believed what they were saying when they blathered on about what college they'd go to and what they'd major in and how much they'd earn a.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 746130c | They were coming, on wings from far away, all the pictures and voices, smells, tastes, all the everything from the past was flying toward me as fast as it could. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 04d94dc | The warped perception of time is a hallmark of trauma. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 2c26118 | If I could turn into a wisp of smoke, I could slip into them and disappear. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 089b4fc | Dr. Parker and all my parents live in a paper-mache world. They just patch up problems with strips of newspaper and a little glue. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 0e5c065 | When I was a real girl, my mother fed me her glass dreams one spoonful at a time. Harvard. Yale. Princeton. Duke. Undergrad. Med school. Internship, residency, God. She'd brush my hair and braid it with long words, weaving the Latin roots and Greek branches into my head so memorizing anatomy would come easy. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d76c172 | When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| ce4b712 | Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 74e912b | We had eight inches of snow last night. In any other part of the country, that would mean a snow day. Not in Syracuse. We never get snow days. It snows an inch in South Carolina, everything shuts down and they get on the six o'clock news. In our district, they plow early and often and put chains on the bus tires. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| bd31e17 | I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish, because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 16abdc0 | I scurry out to the three-way mirror. With an extra-large sweatshirt over the top, you can hardly tell that they are Effert's jeans. Still no Mom. I adjust the mirror so I can see reflections of reflections, miles and miles of me and my new jeans. I hook my hair behind my ears. I should have washed it. My face is dirty. I lean into the mirror. Eyes after eyes after eyes stare back at me. Am I in there somewhere? A thousand eyes blink. No ma.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| ca386e5 | I dare you to punch me," I said. "You? Dare me?" He was laughing too hard to say anything else. I shove him. "I double-dare you. If you don't have the guts to do it, you're a weenie." I shove again, harder. "If you do, you're an even bigger weenie because it's harder to take a punch than to give one." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a680746 | Picasso sure had a thing for naked women. Why not draw them with their clothes on? Who sits around without a shirt on, plucking a mandolin? Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked men a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are men. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 93aa581 | Like most blacks in Philadelphia, Eliza was free. She said Philadelphia was the best city for freed slaves or freeborn Africans. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 83bba70 | Just in case we forget that "weareheretogetagoodfoundation sowecangotocollegeliveuptoourpotentialgetagoodjoblivehap pilyeverafterandgotoDisneyWorld," we have a Job Day." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| ab04245 | It was a prom dress.It was pink.It was originally seventy percent off,but Ma got it down to eighty-five percent off by screaming "My water broke!" while we were checking out" | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c85f980 | I have to go. Boss has this weird idea that I should actually work while he's paying me. | hilarious work | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 9e61582 | Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "Yeah, but not to hurt. To help." | hurt truth | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 49bec95 | It is easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| aa901ce | Precalculus was taught in dog whistle, a pitch too high to hear. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| b6908f4 | Good afternoon, Nathaniel. Kindly return my basket." "Is that all you have to say? You disappoint me. I thought you would send me sailing into the horse trough at least. I guess you respect my new position as a man of the world." "You are not a man of the world, you clean paintbrushes, though for the life of me I don't know why Mr. Peale bothers with you. And you will end up in that trough if you don't give back my basket." I paused. "Your .. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8062340 | The room does not smell like apple. It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. The Back Row pays attention. Cutting dead frogs is cool. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d02c26b | Does being forced to sit in time-out ever make little kids stop putting cats in the dishwasher or drawing on white walls with purple marker? Of course not. It teaches them to be sneaky and guarantees that when they get to high school they'll love detention because it's a great place to sleep. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| f9b81dc | It would have eased her mind if I thanked her for wanting to buy me away from Madam. I tried to be grateful but could not. A body does not like being bought and sold like a basket of eggs, even if the person who cracks the shells is kind. | slavery | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| a0b95dc | Nao existe cura magica, nem como fazer tudo desaparecer para sempre. Existem apenas pequenos passos adiante; um dia mais facil, uma risada inesperada, um espelho que nao importa mais. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 214377e | Before the suffragettes came along, women were treated like dogs... They were dolls, with no thoughts, or opinions, or voices of their own. Then the suffragettes marched in, full of loud, in-your-face ideas. They got arrested and thrown in jail, but nothing shut them up. They fought and fought until they earned the rights they should've had all along. | women-s-suffrage | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 1d651c4 | Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag." "When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time"." | Laurie Halse Anderson |