01UndatedA six mile meteorite cannot compare with a culinary cataclysm of this magnitude.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
02UndatedThe words ‘when I take you home’ echoed in the captain’s mind, caroming off that private place where all his suspicions and uncertainties slept.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
03UndatedI know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
04UndatedThe matron glanced at the old man and suppressed a smile. “He is absolutely miserable.” “I enjoy miserable. It gives one a contrast to all the delectabilities of life. But is he housebroken, inpala? He is rather rumpled. He will look well on my ship, but will he wash well? Do professors fray as a general rule? I will not have my ship looking ragged.”“They do tend to fade after a few years of hard use.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
05UndatedThe cern paled, and all the courageous which accompanied him into the conversation was now all done away. He shrunk back, his audacity dwizzening under the teneberous gloom of the giant’s long shadow. He turned to entreat the help of his fellow soldiers with desperate looks, but there was little more than half of the regiments left behind him, all of them unwilling to intervene, and his bowels rumbled, his heart sinking into the grave of conscience, and never had he felt more mistaken in his conduct.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
06UndatedThere is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
07UndatedWe all emerge into this material soup, mix about with the meat and potatoes of life, and then slip away, back to the primordial germination whence we came. Nascence is a strange business: we forget what we were doing only to come forth and continually forget what we were doing perpetually over the course of a lifetime, until it is time to quit this plane through some unseen and ethereal vomitorium, and presumably forget that we had forgotten all over again.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
08UndatedA heart? Peppone knows where one is to be met with. There is always someone in the black market in need of dying early.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
09UndatedAny advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
10UndatedThe sins of my sex... A woman who is ugly is pitiable, but a man who is ugly is forgiven.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
11UndatedShe deigned to asked me how ice queens reproduce. I grinned, and her mother looked horrified.“We procreate by way of ice cubes, of course. We put them in our nests and let them incubate for the period of about four months, and when the temperature is right, we put them out to roost and let them flake off into billions of snowflakes, rather like tadpoles breaking in droves from their eggs. And that, child,” I said, with a simulacrum of glee, “is how winter is born.”“Does it hurt?”“No more than the approach of Monday does to most of the world. It is a natural process, you understand, but it is dreadful hard work.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
12UndatedA library always housed a trove of undiscovered friendships and forays, and a bookstore, a place where those temporary connections might become a constancy, must always hold a charm over any scholar’s heart.Michelle Franklin / quote ↗
