Next Quote by Libba Bray

“We called them theochemists,” Marie said. They stuck out in more ways than one. “They were really straitlaced, they didn’t drink—you’d give them a…

— Hali Felt

I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.

— Anonymous

“and go looking for a potted plant that appears hardy enough to survive being irrigated with the stuff.”

— Charles Stross

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

— Charles Buxton

Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

— Richard Hammond

“The obituary seemed like a washing of the body. It cleaned Steen up. The existence of the photographs, all the sordid aspects of the…

— Simon Brett

“The first impression one gets of Michael Deane is of a man constructed of wax, or perhaps prematurely embalmed. After all these years, it…

— Jess Walter

“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety…

— William Godwin

“History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold all the…

— Rex Alan Smith

“Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.”

— Dennis Lehane

“Benjamin Franklin wrote that he would like to be embalmed in a cask of Madeira”

— Anne Fadiman

Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald