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81 " io sui ici en liu dami amo’ (‘I am here in place of a friend love’) "
― Connie Willis , Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
82 " Nothing can save you, not youth or beauty or wealth, not intelligence or power or courage. You are all alone, in the middle of the ocean, with the lights going out. "
― Connie Willis , Passage
83 " what the hell is ‘emotional bonding,’ anyway? It sounds like something out of Fifty Shades of Grey. "
― Connie Willis , Crosstalk
84 " She was afraid she’d have no hope at all of recognizing the drop without the wagon and boxes there. She would have to get Gawyn to show it to her, "
85 " History was full of divergence points nobody could get anywhere near—from Archduke Ferdinand’s assassination to the battle of Trafalgar. Events so critical and so volatile that the introduction of a single variable—such as a time traveler—could change the outcome. And alter the entire course of history. "
― Connie Willis , Blackout (All Clear, #1)
86 " Show tunes are great. Stephen Sondheim. Rodgers and Hammerstein. Wicked. Rent. The Music Man. Almost any musical will do. Except Cats.” “Why? Doesn’t it shut out the voices?” “No, it shuts them out fine. But it’s a terrible musical. "
87 " For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost. "
― Connie Willis , To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
88 " Ashes to ashes. Dust to nonsignificance. "
89 " This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an elopement. "
90 " Oh, it'll definitely fool the Germans," Cess said. "There's no clearer proof that there's an army in the area than beer bottles and used condoms. "
― Connie Willis , All Clear (All Clear, #2)
91 " Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” —ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY, The Little Prince If "
92 " Well, at least she’s asserting herself, and you don’t have to worry about her having ‘squelched girl syndrome,’ ” she said. Mary Clare ignored that. "
93 " Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's a cage with two Siamese kittens in it. Like that. "
― Connie Willis , The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories
94 " Do you know the only way you can tell for sure the deer are there?" Mel shook his head. "By the wolves," he said. "
95 " This gave me an early taste for humorous authors, of which there were—and are—far too few (though there are lots who labor under the misapprehension that they're funny.) "
96 " her. I never felt properly sorry for schizophrenics, she thought, unable to escape the voices in their heads and fighting for their sanity with a maelstrom of noise all around them, making it impossible to think. No "
97 " ‘I promise you calm seas,’ ” Sir Godfrey called, and raised his hands in benediction, “ ‘auspicious gales, and sail so expeditious that shall catch your royal fleet far off.’ "
98 " Are you making something up in your head, miss?” —FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, A Little Princess Zener "
99 " Do it on the radio.” —Educating Rita Saved "
100 " The voices didn’t join in this time, as she hadn’t spoken, but to her surprise, they all thought in chorus.” — LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass "