“ [...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!(Alverstoke) Georgette Heyer
“ The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea. Katherine McIntyre
“ Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For ever… Dan Brown