“It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.”

“Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.”

“Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.”

“Psychics. I love to prove you wrong.”

“Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas?""Perhaps they mix too well.”

“Good,” and Judge Robertson began to ramble on about the benefits and drawbacks of living with either parent. Penny’s attention wandered, she had stopped pretending the judge’s eyebrow’s had metamorphosis into butterflies and began to wonder if any adult actually read the books on these walls, and if she flipped through would she find blank pages after a while, or a joke page, just to surprise someone who actually sat through the book. That’s what she would do if she had to write something so awful, and who would want to check? -Child of Fire”

“The mass depiction of the modern woman as a "beauty" is a contradiction: Where modern women are growing, moving, and expressing their individuality, as the myth has it, "beauty" is by definition inert, timeless, and generic. That this hallucination is necessary and deliberate is evident in the way "beauty" so directly contradicts women's real situation.”