Erich Maria Remarque
- All Quiet on the Western Front
Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to fight. Not much for twenty years, and yet too much for twenty years.
Tim D. White & Pieter A. Folkens
- The Human Bone Manual
At birth the skull contains intervals of dense connective tissue between plates of bone. These "soft spots," or fontanelles, are cartilaginous membranes that eventually harden and turn to bone.
Edith Hamilton
- Mythology - Endymion
This youth, whose name is so famous, has a very short history. Some of the poets say he was a king, some a hunter, but most of them say he was a shepherd. All agree that he was a youth of surpassing beauty and that this was the cause of his singular fate.
Floyd Barrington
- Weed: Grow It, Cook It
In 1785 the French biologist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck suggested that it was actually polytypic (having more than one species). His studies revealed differences between European hemp and samples he had collected on his travels throughout India.
Lee Gregory
- Maroon Bells - Colorado Scenic Guide
Maroon Peak, at 14,156 feet, is the 25th-highest mountain in Colorado. North Maroon Peak ranks 50th and is just barely a "fourteener" at 14,014 feet. This pair forms part of the west wall of Maroon Valley, three miles north of West Maroon Pass.
Amy Tan
- The Hundred Secret Senses
And so, among the things I packed and now resent seeing in my tiny suitcase are two silk tank tops, a pair of canvas shorts, a clothes steamer, a pair of sandals, a swimsuit, and a neon-pink silk blazer. The only opera I'll wear that to is the soap going on in my own little courtyard.
Ray Bradbury
- Dandelion Wine
Warm summer twilight here in upper Illinois country in this little town deep far away from everything, kept to itself by a river and a forest and a meadow and a lake. The sidewalks still scorched. The stores closing and the streets shadowed. And there were two moons; the clock moon with four faces in four night directions about the solemn black courthouse, and the real moon rising in vanilla whiteness from the dark east.
Erich Maria Remarque
- All Quiet on the Western Front
We are at rest five miles behind the front. Yesterday we were relieved, and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans. We are satisfied and at peace. Each man has another mess-tin full for the evening; and, what is more, there is a double ration of sausage and bread. That puts a man in fine trim. We have not had such luck as this for a long time.
