4) You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his kneesExcerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace WillowsComing this summer to
5) "And tell me everything, tell chain by chain, and link by link, and step by step; sharpen the knives you kept hidden away, thrust them into my breast, into my hands, like a torrent of sunbursts, an
amazon of buried jaguars, and leave me cry: hours, days and years, blind ages, stellar centuries.","Pablo Neruda, The Heights of Macchu Picchu"
6) "In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with the fight for souls. These North American evangelists of strictly fundamentalist inclination combined in a curious fashion strict adhesion to the literal meaning of the Old Testament With mastery of the most modern technology. Most of them came from small towns in the Bible Belt, armed with unshakably clear consciences and a rudimentary smattering of theology, convinced that they alone were the repositories of Christian values now abolished elsewhere. Totally ignorant of the vast world, despite their transplantation, and taking the few articles of morality accepted in the rural Amenca of their childhoods to be a universal credo, they strove bravely to spread these principles of salvation all around them.Their rustic faith was well served by a flotilla of light aircraft, a powerful radio, an ultra-modern hospital and four-wheel-drive vehicles -- in short, all the equipment that a battalion of crusaders dropped behind enemy lines needed.","Philippe Descola, The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the
amazon Jungle"
7) I had a dream about you last night.. You were in the
amazon rain forest yipping like a dog.,"Amy Sommers, I Had a Dream About You"
8) "Fang let out a low whistle. ""Anyone know that
amazons could ride a giant bird?""Ethon gave him a duh stare. ""Those of us who fought them, yeah, we know. How you think they keep kicking our asses?""""Cause you're pansies. Everyone knows that.","Sherrilyn Kenyon, No Mercy"
9) "My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous
amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.","Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine"
10) "During the Society's early years, no member personified the organization's eccentricities or audacious mission more than Sir Francis Galton. A cousin of Charles Darwin's, he had been a child prodigy who, by the age of four, could read and recite Latin. He went on to concoct myriad inventions. They included a ventilating top hat; a machine called a Gumption-Reviver, which periodically wet his head to keep him awake during endless study; underwater goggles; and a rotating-vane steam engine. Suffering from periodic nervous breakdowns––""sprained brain,"" as he called it––he had a compulsion to measure and count virtually everything. He quantified the sensitivity of animal hearing, using a walking stick that could make an inconspicuous whistle; the efficacy of prayer; the average age of death in each profession (lawyers: 66.51; doctors: 67.04); the exact amount of rope needed to break a criminal's neck while avoiding decapitation; and levels of boredom (at meetings of the Royal Geographical Society he would count the rate of fidgets among each member of the audience).","David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the
amazon"
11) Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary,"Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes,
amazonia And Other Forests Of Brazil"
12) "(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and
amazon’s Kindle?)Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.",Ray Bradbury
13) "To be honest I wrote it mainly from the reason and wanting something more than a life something which could explore my life at deeper level. Probably I have done it... probably I haven't done it... what I know is that I won't be for this Century like somebody famous... I will be still average, I can't go on the
amazon and starting selling my works... I don't feel comfortable being in that state.","Deyth Banger, The Life Of One Kid"
14) "The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the
amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.","Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City"
15) "I was sure I fell in love with him again like the usual. He did things that made me go back to him. Once again, it scared me half to death.","Kia
amazona, The Way It Was Before"
16) "You are created to be a creator. God does not give anyone a finished product. God did not create the telephone, car, computers, Facebook,
amazon, ebay, God did not make a chair, He created a tree for you to produce the chair. He gave you the raw materials to look at and ask yourself what can I do with this?Are you a producer or a consumer? .....ponder","Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder"
17) "Every place where we were together was a symbol of our youth and our blissful ignorance of the world. It was our tiny bubble of happiness. And as I looked carefully at them, memorizing their faces and everything I was able to see about them, I mentally made a toast. Here's to all the sleepless nights and to our existence.","Kia
amazona, The Way It Was Before"
18) "In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the
amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford.","Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford"
19) "You will never be able to push a button and kill people. You will not avoid the horrors. War must be so terrible that people will do almost anything to avoid it. It must be the last resort and in this case, it is, but that decision can only be made by the ones with the most to lose, not someone sitting safely in an underground facility, watching it on the monitors.""Free Trader 4 - Battle for the
amazon, by Craig Martelle",Craig Martelle
20) "It's the young who will lead us to the future.""Free Trader 4 - Battle for the
amazon",Craig Martelle
21) "I do so love my witches and wicked queens. I find myself drawn to feminine archetypes that previous generations have found threatening or dangerous: crones, oracles, madwomen, amazons, virgins who aren’t helpless, bad mothers. I love to give the vagina dentata voice. It so rarely gets to speak for itself.",Catherynne M. Valente