Salvador Penderel

“But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
― Sara Pascoe

“Moral: Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. “A”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi: (With Pictures)

“This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Intelligent and competent, Louisa Pierson was far more than a source of information or advisor on diplomatic etiquette.”
― Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China