Lourie Reprogle

“Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlane chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“II y avait en elle un manque d'équilibre entre le sang et les
nerfs, une sorte de détraquement du cerveau et du cœur, qui la faisait vivre
en dehors de la vie ordinaire.”
― Émile Zola, The Fortune of the Rougons

“It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial