#kindlehighlight

I pulled the dress out of the bag and held it in front of me. Ella sat up straighter and squinted her eyes, while Michael and Paco made the noises men make when a woman says, “What do you think?” Fathers probably teach those noises to their sons when they’re young—“Stand up when you’re introduced to a lady, use your napkin instead of your sleeve, and make admiring noises when a woman shows you anything, no matter what it is, and asks you what you think about it. Never, never, never say you have no opinion. ↗

— Blaize Clement

#men

It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket. ↗

— Ian Rankin

#money

he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satire—which would eventually topple the genteel tradition of the nineteenth century. In a peculiar way, Parrington seemed to think, Kansas was one of the birthplaces of literary modernism. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#nature

By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which differs significantly in one or more respects as to belief or practice from those religious groups which are regarded as the normative expressions of religion in our total culture. ↗

— Walter Martin

#religion

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#failure

You see, but you do not observe. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#observation

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. ↗

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#observation

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! ↗