"She was lost in that deep and certain sense that there was nothing beyond her own experience. As if there were only one way things could go, the years leading you down a corridor to a room where your inevitable self waited - embryonic, ready to be revealed. How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed."

"Once as he stood there he saw some young boys playing football and this cheered him, but then he realized that they were not young boys, but young men, and they were not playing with a ball but with the severed head of a goat, but then it dawned upon him that this was not the head of a goat but of a human being, and he wanted to believe he was mistaken, but something about their expressions left him in little doubt of the truth."

"My father had been a beaker of etiquette and big ideas, Iris was a vase of glamour, and I was the little brown jug of worry."

Now more than ever. 💕 We are stronger with love and light.

"RBG's main concession to hitting her late seventies was to give up waterskiing." Keep on kicking ass, Justice Ginsburg.

Mary is pretty terrible, even for someone stuck in a zombie apocalypse. She wants to see the ocean, and if everyone she loves dies in pursuit then hey, must've been worth it.

Jack Reacher is one of my favorite characters. Lee Child is brilliant, and responsible for many of my happiest leisure hours.

"They are twilight creatures, beings of dawn and dusk, of standing between one thing and another, of not quite and almost, of borderlands and shadows."

"You are going to fail at a lot of things, so when you do, do it on such a grand scale that half the room gives you a standing ovation, and the other half gives you the middle finger."

Lacey Flint is a terrifically written, complex character.

"Learn to be an extremely disciplined half-ass."