Paper Menagerie Quotes & Sayings

Be skillful in speech, that you may be strong. — Merikare

Mark shook Trina awake and scrambled to his feet, pulling her up with him. The Toad was definitely sick, and he was standing just a few feet from their camp. They didn't know anything about this sickness, but that only made it scarier. Trina seemed disoriented, but Mark didn't relent, half dragging her to the other side of the dead coals of their fire from earlier that night. "Alec!" he shouted. "Lana! Wake up!" As if the two were still soldiers, — James Dashner

At some point in an unimaginably distant past some little bag of chemicals fidgeted to life. It absorbed some nutrients, gently pulsed, had a brief existence. — Bill Bryson

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles. — Don Cheadle

This is the most beautiful thing we'll ever have to publish. Let us print it if it's the last effort of our lives!

-on publishing Ulysses — Margaret Anderson

I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.' — Nancy Pelosi