Tim Westmark

“Carisoprodol. Comes in a white tablet like a big-ass vitamin, 350 mg of muscle liquefier for those tense, recovering athletes and furniture movers. Too much, and those relaxed muscles include your diaphragm, then your heart.”
― Craig Clevenger, The Contortionist's Handbook

“Supposedly she’d died, but here she was again–somewhat changed, but you couldn’t kill her. Not when the truest part of her hadn’t even been born.”
― Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic

“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”
― Henry Miller

“barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy