“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth century, it was easy to think of murder that way.” — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image
“Vain people can't bear to be crossed. They are the center of their world, and if circumstances don't allow the world to meet their… — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image
“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth… — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image
“It is too easy to think that ‘science’ is what happens now, that modernity and scientific thought are inseparable. Yet as Laura Snyder so… — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image
