We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self- will, more than of reason or even of self-interest.... Even in the common ...transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thirteenth fairy, her fingers as long and thin as straws,... her eyes burnt by cigarettes, her uterus an empty teacup, arrived with an evil gift.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »