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1 " Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. "
― Christopher Morley , The Haunted Bookshop (Parnassus, #2)
2 " Over the following days and weeks I would come to see, with mounting weariness, that this was to be the pattern of my life from now on: marginal and grim; my habitual daydreams and memories of our life as a couple reduced to nothing, to stuttering salvoes, by the gunpowder of the simple physical truth of my husband's absence. "
― Marie Darrieussecq , My Phantom Husband
3 " For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it. "
― Emily Brontë , Wuthering Heights
