The Medium

Honesty was not a coin to be spent indiscriminately.

from The Medium
by Noelle Sickels
Five Star, 2007

Intimate Relations with Strangers

Like the dogs, the people accepted their fate, and came to realize that living was only a laborious form of dying.

from Intimate Relations with Strangers
by David Valentine Bernard
Strebor Books, 2007

Mannequin

Anything is possible. God made the world that way so that we might find within us the urge to do right, not wrong.

from Mannequin
by J. Robert Janes
Soho Press, 1994

Shroud for a Nightingale

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying him, don't you think?

from Shroud for a Nightingale
by P.D. James
Scribner Paperback Edition, 2001

Paris 1919

Germany was near the end of its manpower and its supplies, and the public was losing its appetite for the war. In the streets of Berlin, housewives marched with their empty pots and pans to show they could no longer feed their families. In the shipyards and factories, workers put down their tools and in the Reichstag, deputies who had once submissively voted for the war, demanded peace.

from Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan
Random House, 2002