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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0793d68 | I was born to be Queen of England and mother of the next King of England. I have to fulfill my destiny, it is my God-given destiny. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 754b2d3 | We say that we are the rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we command these people, but we do not lead them to peace or prosperity. We, their own lords, quarrel among ourselves and bring death to their door, as if our opinions and thoughts and dreams are worth far more than their safety and health and children. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| c02fa54 | And swore that whatever the obstacles before me, I should be Queen of England. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 1eb0930 | it is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace, | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 7c14000 | First you have to know the emptiness of your womb, of your arms, of your heart. That can hurt. You have to have the courage to look at yourself and know the loss that you feel. Then you have to change your life to make a space for the child who will not come. You have to open your heart, you have to make a safe place for the baby. And then you have to sit with your longing and your desire and that can be the most painful. You have to sit wi.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 49d0c28 | The black vomit is not really black; it is a speckled liquid of two colors, black and red, a stew of tarry granules mixed with fresh red arterial blood. It is hemorrhage, and it smells like a slaughterhouse. The black vomit is loaded with virus. It is highly infective, lethally hot, a liquid that would scare the daylights out of a military biohazard specialist. The | Richard Preston | ||
| e48ad95 | An amount of bot tox the size of the dot over this i would be enough to easily kill ten people. Bot tox is a nerve agent. It is one hundred thousand times more toxic than Sarin, the nerve gas that the Aum Shinrikyo sect released in the Tokyo subway. | Richard Preston | ||
| ec5011d | Poxviruses keep herds and swarms of living things in check, preventing them from growing too large and overwhelming their habitats. Viruses are an essential part of nature. If all the viruses on the planet were to disappear, a global catastrophe would ensue, and the natural ecosystems of the earth would collapse in a spectacular crash under burgeoning populations of insects. Viruses are nature's crowd control, and a poxvirus can thin a crow.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 70e57ef | we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart | Richard Preston | ||
| e039135 | In a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people, | Richard Preston | ||
| 68a2fee | Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it was discouraging. On top of the heap sat a large red book with silver | Richard Preston | ||
| edeb0f9 | Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants. Many of the giant trees I describe in this book, as well as the groves they inhabit, have only recently been discovered, and in some cases have been seen by fewer than a dozen people, including myself. To honor the tradition of botany, I won't reveal the exact locations of giant trees or.. | Richard Preston | ||
| fe455d8 | virus. In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. | Richard Preston | ||
| 8e2c8a7 | Frederick A. Murphy, a virologist who had helped to identify Marburg virus. He was and is one of the world's leading electron-microscope photographers of viruses. (His photographs of viruses have been exhibited in art museums.) | Richard Preston | ||
| f14453d | The Semliki Forest agent. Crimean-Congo. Sindbis. O'nyongnyong. Nameless Sao Paulo. Marburg. Ebola Sudan. Ebola Zaire. Ebola Reston. | Richard Preston | ||
| f09f7be | He calls it speleogenesis by elephants--the creation of a cave by elephants. | Richard Preston | ||
| d8839d8 | My virologist friends are always bioengineering viruses. I could see a bioengineered strain of smallpox getting into a terrorist's hands, and that's my fear. And then when we get a terrorist attack with smallpox, and the smallpox doesn't respond to the vaccine, we're in trouble. | Richard Preston | ||
| 0e0cf1d | This life form thing was breathtakingly beautiful. As he stared at it, he found himself being pulled out of the human world into a world where moral boundaries blur and finally dissolve completely. He was lost in wonder and admiration, even though he knew that he was the prey. | Richard Preston | ||
| ab3928f | The virus transformed the hospital at Maridi into a morgue. As it jumped from bed to bed, killing patients left and right, doctors began to notice signs of mental derangement, psychosis, depersonalization, zombie-like behavior. Some of the dying stripped off their clothes and ran out of the hospital, naked and bleeding, and wandered through the streets of the town, seeking their homes, not seeming to know what had happened or how they had g.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 09807bd | A hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on earth. All of the earth's cities are connected by a web of airline routes. The web is a network. Once a virus hits the net, it can shoot anywhere in a day--Paris, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, wherever planes fly. | Richard Preston | ||
| 833bae9 | It isn't August. The moon is asleep and I'm sitting on my porch roof like a frozen gargoyle, wondering if the sun is going to blow off the world today and sleepin. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| aa0b560 | LIBERTY IS EQUALLY AS PRECIOUS TO A BLACK MAN, AS IT IS TO A WHITE ONE, AND BONDAGE EQUALLY AS INTOLERABLE TO THE ONE AS IT IS TO THE OTHER . . . . AN AFRICAN, OR A NEGRO MAY JUSTLY CHALLENGE, AND HAS AN UNDENIABLE RIGHT TO HIS LIBERTY: CONSEQUENTLY, THE PRACTISE OF SLAVE-KEEPING, WHICH SO MUCH ABOUNDS IN THIS LAND IS ILLICT. --ESSAY WRITTEN BY AFRICAN AMERICAN LEMUEL HAYNES, VETERAN OF THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON E | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e760e27 | This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?" The" | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 3e2c527 | Freedom would not be handed to us like a gift. Freedom had to be fought for and taken. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5dcbe39 | Set foot on the campus and it changes you forever. It's..." He paused like he was searching for the right word, something I'd never seen him do before." "It's Nerdvana!" he finally declared." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| f242ca4 | I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c479997 | AS THE GENERAL IS INFORMED, THAT NUMBERS OF FREE NEGROES ARE DESIROUS OF INLISTING, HE GIVES LEAVE TO THE RECRUITING OFFICERS TO ENTERTAIN THEM, AND PROMISES TO LAY THE MATTER BEFORE THE CONGRESS, WHO HE DOUBTS NOT WILL APPROVE OF IT. --GENERAL ORDERS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON T | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 531bdb1 | IT WOULD BE USELESS FOR US TO DENOUNCE THE SERVITUDE TO WHICH THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN WISHES TO REDUCE US, WHILE WE CONTINUE TO KEEP OUR FELLOW CREATURES IN SLAVERY JUST BECAUSE THEIR COLOR IS DIFFERENT FROM OURS. --SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DR. BENJAMIN RUSH, WHO PURCHASED WILLIAM GRUBBER IN 1776 AND DID NOT FREE HIM UNTIL 1794 O | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 55351d4 | I try to read while eating alone, but the noise gets between my eyes and the page and I can't see through it. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e2270bb | Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood. | life metaphor poetic poetic-prose reassurance recovery wintergirls | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 7b14e7b | From the Q&A with the author at the end of the book.) Have any readers ever asked questions that shocked you? I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They ask me why Melinda was so upset about being raped. The first dozen times I heard this, I was horrified. But I heard it over and over again. I realized that many young men are not being taught the impact that .. | sex-education teenagers | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 8b52601 | Sono lo spazio tra le mie cosce e la luce che ci passa attraverso. Sono il topo di biblioteca che si rifugia nei romanzi fantasy. Sono il freak del circo, intrappolato nella cera d'api. Sono le ossa che vogliono, racchiuse in una cornice di porcellana. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 00837d2 | Ci tenevamo per mano mentre percorrevamo il sentiero di pan di zenzero dentro la foresta, col sangue che ci gocciolava dalle dita. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 021aed1 | She laid land mines in my skill that detonated weeks later. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 83ec7da | But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal for not slapping people in the face every day. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 1ede1a0 | The winds of the desert have names. They feed on the bodies of broken children and rip out the beating hearts of men. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6ff22f5 | Halloween - the day when we could pretend to be whatever we wanted - seemed to be letting everyone be who they really were. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| fdfe72c | Nothing chases away the sand or the memories engraved on the back of my eyelids. They play on a continuous loop, with smells and sound and sorrow. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 75cac2c | If I weren't so tired, I'd shove trust and issue down the garbage disposal and let it run all day. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a6172fe | I was the reason she didn't run away freshman year. I was the reason she didn't eat a bottle of sleeping pills when her boyfriend cheated on her. I listened for hours when her parents yelled and tried to stuff her into a mannequin shell that didn't fit. I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c8ef5ee | Tell us your secret,' the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the library aide who hides in Fantasy. I am the circus freak encased in beeswax. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. When I get close, the step back. The cameras in their eyeholes record the zit on my chin, the rain in my eyes, the blue water under my skin. They pick up every soun.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 0728cb9 | Love messes you up and makes you do strange things | love mess page-366 strange | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| be6c3a6 | I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world. They tiny elf-dancer became a wooden doll whose strings were jerked by people not paying attention. I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 2157731 | I HEARD BULLETS WHISTLE AND BELIEVE ME, THERE IS SOMETHING CHARMING IN THE SOUND. --LETTER FROM THE TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD GEORGE WASHINGTON DESCRIBING HIS FIRST TASTE OF BATTLE T | Laurie Halse Anderson |