
The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees. —
Zora Neale Hurston

His name wasn't Handsome McHotpants. I didn't know his name —
Penny Reid

If the day comes where I can have my own action figure ... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day. —
Owain Yeoman

She stroked one of the geranium's petals, inhaling its particular bitter fragrance, which she admired for its bold air of unapology. —
Ellen Airgood

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency. —
Lewis Thompson Preston

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history. —
Howard Mumford Jones

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission. —
Michael A. Ledeen

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men ... It blew ideas away. —
Sherwood Anderson