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[Daniel.J.Nickolas]

“Her hair fell about her face and her eyes rolled and watered and her lips became cruel and tight, as a fighter’s do when he is slugging a half-conscious opponent.”

John Steinbeck from (the very peculiar) “The Wayward Bus”

 

[Ophanil]

Into the hand of my oldest friend
- Darkness Spoken by Ingeborg Bachmann

 

[Chris P]

"You didn't know about the road, did you? And you don't know what there is in front of us."

Watership Down by Richard Adams

 

[Catriona Grace]

"As the orbits are angled more forward, there is a greater degree of overlap between the field of view covered by each eye."

Animal Skulls: A Guide to North American Species. Mark Elbroch.

 

[Fi Webster]

"But we are not here concerned with this well-known attitude, expressive of terror combined with anger; we are concerned only with that of rage or anger."
—Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (in terrific 200th anniversary edition)

 

[oneblindmouse]

"They listened without answering or looking at him or at the woman, keeping their faces averted and their eyes turned to the ground, only listening."
- The Woman who Rode Away. D.H. Lawrence

 

[AbelCM]

"Then she and my mother have lots of fun because my mother gets along best with women who are younger than she is."
- The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen

 

[moondust]

Islam is judged to be a fraudulent new version of some previous experience, in this case Christianity.
- Orientalism by Edward Said (closest book that isn't my own notebook which has nothing on page 59 as of yet xD).