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“And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name.”
― Charles Nicolle

“The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong for dinner, and eat me up - Robert Cobb Kennedy”
― Tobin T. Buhk, True Crime in the Civil War: Cases of Murder, Treason, Counterfeiting, Massacre, Plunder & Abuse

“Da bi saznao je li cijelo proljeće i dalje na tvome licu, svake noći kradem Mjesec i stavljam ga u torbicu da mi osvijetli dugi put do tebe, pa utonem u mračnu noć zaključanu na mome licu.”
― Nura Bazdulj-Hubijar, Spavaj Anđela

“No sooner did the plan let them off at New Caledonia, than Barby found another friend. He was a Kanaka taxi driver, over six feet tall and muscled like a blacksmith, with sooty skin and hair turned yellow from many applications of lime, a standard native treatment for lice. He chewed betel incessantly, which Barby thought was fascinating, since it turned his tongue and lips the color of a ripe tomato. His name, he said in wonderfully bad English, was Henri. He pronounced it 'On-ree.”
― John Blaine, The Phantom Shark

“Typhus was raging and even some at the Danish consulate were infected.... The pharmacies, running out of medicines, sold Orthodox amulets, and people were instructed to tie their sleeves tightly at the wrist so as to prevent lice from creeping in. Former ladies-in-waiting were sleeping on the floor, with eleven former aristocrats sharing one room. A feeling of doom was spreading all over the city, like typhus itself.”
― John Curtis Perry, The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga

“Ništa nije proučavao tako kao to lice i ni u što nije polagao takve nade (iako je to zahtijevalo priličan napor) kao u to lice. Bilo je slično majčinu ali, kako je Jaromil bio muškarac, finoća crta bila je mnogo upadljivija - imao je lijepo oblikovan malen nos i sitnu, neznatno uvučenu bradu. Ta ga je brada mučila najviše jer je pročitao poznatu Schopenhauerovu tvrdnju da je unazad povučena brada odvratna, jer se čovjek razlikuje od majmuna upravo po izbačenoj bradi. Onda je negdje pronašao Rilkeovu sliku i ustanovio da je i on imao uvučenu bradu; to mu je pružilo utjehu i poticaj. Dugo je promatrao svoju sliku u ogledalu očajnički se koprcajući u golemu prostranstvu između majmuna i Rilkea.”
― Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

“The biggest takeaway from my long-distance relationship with Floyd Byars was that I optioned an original screenplay he had co-written with his writing partner, Laurie.
Another takeaway was a case of crabs picked up on our only vacation together in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
I noticed a crab in my eyelashes when I was in the airplane bathroom on my way back to JFK. I feared these little critters might be other places as well, so I spent the next four hours squirming in my seat, itchy and miserable. On the taxi ride home, I made the driver stop at an all-night pharmacy so I could buy a bottle of Kwell.
But despite the footsies and the crabs, I liked the premise of his (their) Making Mr. Right script.”
― Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls