{"author":"Michelle Franklin","author_id":"Michelle+Franklin","total_quotes":63,"quotes":[{"text":"Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["fantasy"],"id":19138,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"It is 32c today, and the only thing keeping me from hanging myself is the small sense of relief Iglean from attaching my body to the vents of my delicious cooling piece. It is a stunning unit,exquisite in all its forms, exceptional in its application, and effective in all its functions. I wouldmarry it, if only I knew it would not die on me sometime within the next five years. Appliances,like obedient children or silent extroverts, cannot last forever, and while my unbidden affectionkept my other air conditioner alive for the better part of ten years, not all inanimate objects canbe fueled by my love.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["air-conditioning","cold","humour","love","summer"],"id":19339,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"You—“ Mr Bellstrode began, and then leaning forward and sinking his voice, “You would kill for money?”“Is there any other reason to? Well, I suppose there is revenge, but that, you know, never makes one feel as well as it should when it is all said and done. Money is a much better reward than retribution. Something substantial by way of compensation for emotional wrongs is much the best cure for an injured spirit. I do provide fatal retaliation for nothing when it is deserved, but as you are neither a poor helpless wretch nor the victim of national injustice, full payment is expected.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["assassination","humour","mercenaries","murder","pirates"],"id":23666,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"The captain’s eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living beyond those whom he would have given much to keep.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["friendship","grief","immortality","love","sorrow","time"],"id":31446,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"He’s going to kill me,” Peppone murmured, his jaw drooping, “or at least send out the order to have someone take care of me. Well,” with a sigh, “might as well get rid of this body before the others wake up.” He canted his head and mused to himself. “Maybe I should carve it up first.”\t“At long last,” Bartleby cried, raising his eyes and wringing his hands, “somebody who has no regard for collective conscience and general morality. Oh, happy, happy morning!”\t“Take care, Peppone,” Danaco laughed, “if you have so little regard for life and the creatural condition, Bartleby will attach himself to you and never leave you for a moment.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["humour","life","pirates","science"],"id":34148,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"Tea was the great arbiter of many things, and for Pastaddams, his morning cup meant the difference between expressing rational thought and succumbing to the ineptitude that occupied recesses of his dormant mind. Merely having the cup in his hand facilitated the flow of ideas, and upon tea, the great nourishment of the tailor’s life, rested all his claims to rational dependence.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["caffine","humour","tea","tea-time"],"id":36421,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"A demigod who reaches his apotheosis never mourns for himself.It is the business of his many adulators to mourn for him. He cannot feel sadness to be so great, leaving all the rest of us to champion in trembling misery.I, surprisingly, have very few words to offer, only because this year has taken so many sensational performers from us. There comes a time when the agony of loss is too great, when we feel it too much-- there is nothing left but painful astonishment. My grievances lie more with the Gods for taking him away from us than they do with his parting. I suppose I shall reach the stage of unconscionable sorrow at some point; now I am half confusion and half indignation. It should be impossible for people to be so deeply affected by someone whom we have never formally met, but this is existence: it is a bold measure we take, this stake in sufferance; we must all go through everything together, another proof of the mask of division. We all feel the same things, and Prince's passing is felt no less by anybody. Between him and Bowie, there is now a musical chasm in the world, a place where Gods once dwelt that is now abandoned, and in the Age of Pseudolotry, where what is nonsensical reigns over what is intelligent, we are likely never to see one of his kind again.Goodnight, sweet Prince. We shall go on trundling through this 'thing called life' with hearts defrauded of our greatest love.--On the death of Prince.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["death","grief","loss","music","prince"],"id":44642,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"The sins of my sex... A woman who is ugly is pitiable, but a man who is ugly is forgiven.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["beauty","gender","ugliness"],"id":44759,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"You will try to improve me, Captain, but I tell you it cannot be done. I am resigned to moral apathy and corporeal decrepitude, and have done with projections. No, Captain,” with a pining sigh, “I think I will simply sit in the shade and wait for either a customer or death, the latter I might prefer, at such a point.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["aging","apathy","business","death","humour"],"id":49430,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"},{"text":"I leave the outdoors to you. It is too warm out there to read comfortable, and summer, like many uncomfortable things, is as welcome as a dim woman. It is tolerable to look at, but after being made to interact with it, nobody wants anything to do with it.","author":"Michelle Franklin","tags":["humour","ignorance","stupidity","women"],"id":54773,"author_id":"Michelle+Franklin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}