“The mystery box arrived unannounced.”
The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll.
“Wait a minute - I’m in first class.”
China Rich Girlfriend, by Kevin Kwan
“Dead people never stop talking.”
A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James
“Nah, never heard of him.”
–Let The Good Times Roll: My Life in the Small Faces, The Faces and The Who, by Kenney Jones
“I hadn’t so much forgot as I couldn’t bring myself to remember.”
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou.
“It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in office, reading a long memo that was slippng through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.”
-J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“My first remembrance of fashion was the day my mother caught me parading around our middle-class Catholic home in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston.”
Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs, by Bill Cunningham
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral. ~ Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
“Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy.”
Boy, Snow, Bird, by Helen Oyeyemi
“By the time he graduate from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953.”
– The Dead Zone, by Stephen King
“The first thing they always did was run you.”
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
“A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statement, and test them step by step.”
The Logic of Scientific Discovery, by Karl Popper
“In a smallish London suburb where nothing much ever happened, my family gradually became the talk of the town.” Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math by Daniel Tammet
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
My tenth trip through The Hobbit.
“In the summer of 1908, eleven young women with similar hairstyles posed for a photograph.”
A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War, by Patricia Fara.
Anand Giridharadas – Winners take all : the elite charade of changing the world
“Her college mind heavy with the teachings of Aristotle and Goldman Sachs, Hilary Cohen knew she wanted to change the world.”
“One of the things that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself.”
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain, by Bill Bryson
Things are never what they seem in the wilds of deep space.
"From the East Oregonian, June 25th, 1947:
FIRE CONTROL OFFICER SPOTS ‘FLYING SAUCERS’
Kenneth Arnold Reports 9 Disc-Shaped Objects
‘Shiny, Silvery, Moved Incredibly Fast’ "
– Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King
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