Theo Obleton

“Isn’t the universe full of gaseous elements?”
Andrew says, “Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen

“Beauty - the beauty Peter craves - is this, then: a human bundle of accidental grace and doom and hope. Mizzy must have hope, he must, he wouldn't shine like this if he were in true despair, and of course he's young, who in this world despairs more exquisitely than the young, it's something the old tend to forget.”
― Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

“I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.”
― Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love