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“I鈥檓 relieved to see
that even brilliant physicists make mistakes.鈥�
Kohler looked over. 鈥淲hat do you mean?鈥�
鈥淲hoever wrote that note made a mistake. That column isn鈥檛 Ionic. Ionic columns are uniform in width. That one鈥檚 tapered. It鈥檚 Doric鈥攖he Greek counterpart. A common mistake.鈥�
Kohler did not smile. 鈥淭he author meant it as a joke, Mr. Langdon. Ionic means containing ions鈥攅lectrically charged particles. Most objects contain them.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“What Gaudi had attained by twisting the order to his peculiar missionary and structural purposes, Loos could only assert by isolation and giganticism: the supremacy of value pitted against the city of brute fact. The Doric order appeared to have been the ultimate historical form, the great human building achievement, unfettered by sculptural contingency or the base need for shelter. All of them 鈥� Gaudi, Sullivan and Loos, and Asplund 鈥� saw the Doric order as ultimate, though perhaps only for Loos did that imply the last ever, the last possible.”
― Joseph Rykwert, The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture

“Death for life wasn't something she had thought about before, but when she was faced with it, her survival became the most important thing.”
― E.K. Johnston

“It pulled her along through curiosity and compulsion, and even though she didn't know the question, she longed to find out the answers”
― E.K. Johnston, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: The Druid's Call

“She had thought that power was a ladder to the loft, the rope on which the bread basket came up, the ability to look at a daughter and poison her drink. She learned now that power could be other things, too. The ability to feed yourself. The ability to hunt.”
― E.K. Johnston, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: The Druid's Call