Schelenk Quotes & Sayings

Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz

I am persuaded that feminism is not at the root of political correctness. The actual source is much nastier and dares not speak its name, which is simply hatred for old people. The question of domination between men and women is relatively secondary - important but still secondary - compared to what I tried to capture in this novel, which is that we are now trapped in a world of kids. Old kids. The disappearance of patrimonial transmission means that an old guy today is just a useless ruin. The thing we value most of all is youth, which means that life automatically becomes depressing, because life consists, on the whole, of getting old. — Michel Houellebecq

Nigga we made it. — Drake Douglas

Death is not the end; it is the beginning of the new life, the eternal life. — Debasish Mridha

And sometimes, hope is the only thing that gets us through the day. — Julie Kagawa

When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else. — Eric Ripert

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked ... — Chuck Palahniuk

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated. — Michael Bloomberg

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking. — David Byrne

Our love is not perfect. We are fucked-up and bleeding, but neither one of us is powerful enough to walk away from it like we should. — Mary Elizabeth

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. — Alexandre Dumas

Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit! — Cher

Mr. Blank's old friend is acting up again, and because our hero is no longer wearing the cotton trousers and underpants and is quite naked under the pajama bottoms, there is no barrier to prevent Mr. Bigshot from bounding out through the slit and poking his head into the light of day. — Paul Auster